DISAPPOINTED EXPECTATION VOLUME 1

DISAPPOINTED EXPECTATION  VOLUME 1 Preached ON Sunday, 22^nd December 2019 AT The Household of God, Onitsha BY Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN The Ancient of Days 

As it is written, Behold I am laying in Zion a Stone that will make men stumble, a Rock that will make them fall; but he who believes in Him [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him] shall not be put to shame nor be disappointed in his expectations.

[Romans 10:33 AMP]

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DISAPPOINTED EXPECTATION

 You are welcome to His presence this day. I love you with the love of God.

2.           THE STRENGTH OF EVERY MAN OF GOD IS DRAWN FROM THE SUBJECTS. TAKE AWAY THE SUBJECTS, THE LEADER HAS NO STRENGTH.

3.           THE SAME WAY, NOTHING DEMORALIZES THE LEADER MORE THAN THE DISLOYALTY OF THE SUBJECT.

4.           So I am happy to be in your midst once again. And I believe you are all alive both physically and spiritually. For that, we give God the whole glory.

5.           With God all things are possible. Our God is an expert in handling all impossibilities. If you have not experienced Him, well, keep on praying. One day you will have your own personal experience.

6.           EXPERIENCE SUSTAINS. KNOWLEDGE CAN BE FORGOTTEN. KNOWLEDGE CAN FIZZLE OUT, BUT EXPERIENCE LINGERS THROUGHOUT ETERNITY.

7.           This morning, I have to say thank you to all of you for your support and for your cooperation that has helped Me to realize My noble objective concerning your salvation.

8.           COUNT YOURSELVES AS A BLESSED FELLOW THAT GOD IS USING YOU, YOUR PRAYERS, YOUR SUPPORT AND YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER TO ENRICH THE WHOLE MANKIND. COUNT IT AS A BLESSING.

9.           BUT MY PRAYER GOES BEYOND THAT. MY PRAYER IS THAT YOU WILL NOT USE YOUR TIME AND YOUR RESOURCES TO BLESS OTHERS, AND AT THE END, GET DISAPPOINTED.

10.        And the reason why you will be disappointed must be revealed to you once again. I handled a message long time ago titled DISAPPOINTED AT THE END. I supported it with another message titled DISAPPOINTED EXPECTATION.

11.        Yes! I took My text from the Scriptures from the book of Esther, when Mordecai was remembered from the book of records by the king; a day of honour. A day of reward.

12.        But the henchman who was too popular; the closest man to the king; chief of chiefs, Haman was summoned to come and suggest what would be used to honour one that favoured the king so greatly; one who has not been recognized and honoured by the king.

13.        Haman was one that walked too close to the king, that he could help the king to execute all his programs.

14.        The Bible said Haman thought he must be the one. And by his own assessment, there was not even one who must have walked so close to the king, rendered help to the king and helped the king to execute his program more than Haman.

15.        ⁶So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor? Now Haman said to himself, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to me? [Esther 6:6 AMP]

16.        You see! Self-assessment. And he expected that whatever the king might be recommending or whatever he might accept as his recommendations must go to him [Haman].

17.        Then he opened his mouth widely, “O king! I am here. Bring out your own royal horse. Bring the regalia; the dress which the king uses to decorate himself in every ceremonious occasions. Bring the ornament of gold and silver, the bangles and everything, the crown of the king.

18.        That is what that person merits. Place him on top of the horse and then gather all the elders and the chiefs of the land, and let them surround the horse with a very big band, making a great noise while moving about.

19.         And let the second in command to that man go in front ringing the bell, alerting the community and telling them to come out to witness how the king decorates somebody he loves so much.

20.        And he was saying all these things believing that there could not be any other beneficiary other than him.

21.        To his amazement, the king accepted all the recommendations and said, “Haman, as you have recommended, so will I do it.”

22.        Haman was not only excited. He could see his own picture in the making. He was wondering in his heart what a glorious honour he would attract when he will be mounting on the horse of the king and being led about the community with the chief security ringing bell inviting the whole world to come and see how the king blesses one he loves; the one he trusts.

23.        Then, the king lifted up his eyes towards the sky and he remembered the book of records and he knew the man. He then called the Jews to surround him.

24.        Haman was there when the king said, “Gentlemen, open the book of records at so so and so period of time. There was a man, a Jew sojourning in this land, who saved my life. He is not a native of the Medes and Persia, but a Jew that was taken to captivity in our land. He did it a long time ago. Check the book of records.”

25.        They opened the records and they saw that the king’s report is accurate. He asked a question, “What have we used to reward him for this wonderful deed? A selfless deed.”

26.         Then they said, “O king! Nothing. The king turned to Haman, “Go and fetch Mordecai. All you recommended for the man the king loves so much as a reward, decorate Mordecai. And you being the chief whip, you will go in front of the horse. Take the Bell and alert the community, asking them to come out and see how the King rewards someone who favoured the king.”

27.        Haman’s expectations failed. He could not lift up his face in shame, for he had already concluded that he was the one.

28.        After all, who else could it be other than me. He never knew that the king is not Haman. Mordecai came forward. Mordecai, who was ridiculed as a refugee and who was taking refuge in a foreign land.

29.        Mordecai, whom Haman had already marked for slaughter, for he had built gallows in the village square where Mordecai would be hanged and alerted all communities that all Jews would be exterminated whenever he is crowned.

30.         If you were in the shoes of Haman, what would you have done. Put yourself in the place of Haman. Your greatest enemy is now the best friend of the king. Not only is he the best friend of the king. You, the supposedly closest man to the king; you have been invited to decorate him using all your recommendations, for he [Haman] was thinking that he will be like the king.

31.        What was left if not the throne? Riding on the king’s horse, wearing the king’s dress, the crown and everything. And the community coming out to watch the chief whip directing people as they beat the drum. What a glorious sight that would have offered.

32.        But what happened? His expectations failed. At the end, what happened? The king did not stop there.

33.        The king heard that Haman had already constructed a gallow and also kept it secret, where he wanted to hang Mordecai.

34.        On hearing it, the king ordered Mordecai, “Take. Go with these chiefs. Take Haman to the gallows he prepared and hang him to death.”

35.        At the public square, Haman was hanged, even before the battle started. DISAPPOINTED EXPECTATION.

36.        Can you imagine? Another set of people who were very close to the Messiah to the point that they were numbered among those who were preaching the Gospel exhaustively, casting out the Devil, healing the sick, performing miracles everywhere, eating and drinking with him, had the testimony.

37.        They even ate and drank with him, even when he resurrected from the death. Wherever he was found, they were always around him. Having this at the back of their minds, they now believed that they have express tickets into Paradise. To them, eternal life is no longer negotiable. They are already there.

38.         And when they were coming before the KING of Kings and the LORD of Lords, they were having no fear. When they got there, they thought the door would have been opened for them, but they heard, “Gentleman, halt there. Leave this gate. I do not know who you are. I do not know who you are.”

39.        The Bible said that they began to explain themselves, “Master can you please hear us out. We were with you; we were supporting the ministry all round. When the Jews wanted to kill you, we stood in your place. We fought battle with you. We preached in the synagogue and on the street. We helped people to know about you. We ate and drank with you on many occasions. We slept together. We healed the sick in your name. We performed miracles in your name. We published your fame in all Judea, Jerusalem and Samaria. How dare you say you do not know us? Are we foreigners to you?”

40.        Gentlemen! Have you finished your oratory? I say leave My presence. I do not know who you are. Concerning all you said you did, of a truth you did all, but with impure motive. Your hearts were not right. You never believed in Me from the very beginning. How dare you come presenting work and not faith? Leave My presence and depart to hell.

41.        ²¹Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father Who is in heaven. ²²Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name and driven out demons in Your name and done many mighty works in Your name?²³And then I will say to them openly (publicly), I never knew you; depart from Me, you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands]. [Matthew 7:21 – 23 AMP]

42.        ²⁵When once the Master of the house gets up and closes the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door [again and again], saying, Lord, open to us! He will answer you, I do not know where [ what household–certainly not Mine] you come from. ²⁶Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets. ²⁷But He will say, I tell you, I do not know where [ what household–certainly not Mine] you come from; depart from Me, all you wrongdoers! [Luke 13:25 – 27 AMP]

43.        If you were among these people, what will be your reaction? No solicitor. No advocate. Straight on to hell with your works, for you presented works and not faith.

44.        Who will be disappointed at the end? You think they are these people in the world that do not know this truth? You think they are the crazy people or the prostitute here and there? No!

45.        They know their fate because, for one day, they have never come to God. And they are not willing to come to God. So, their fate has already been determined.

46.        WHO WILL BE DISAPPOINTED AT THE END? YOU! I SAY, “YOU THAT HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO IDENTIFY WITH HIM ALL ROUND. YOU THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIT DOWN AND HEAR HIM SPEAK. YOU THAT ARE CLAIMING TO BE FOLLOWING AND CLAIMING TO BE BELIEVING, WHEN YOU ARE NOT BELIEVING.

47.        YOU ARE MERELY PLAYING RELIGION, PLAYING CHURCH AND RUNNING AROUND HIM FOR ONE REASON OR THE OTHER. YOU ARE SHOWCASING PERSONALITY. YOU ARE NOT SHOWCASING FAITH. AM I MAKING SENSE? WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING, YOU ARE DOING IT THAT YOU MIGHT BE RECOGNIZED BY THE SON OF MAN LIKE HAMAN.

48.        YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME OTHER DEEDS THAT WERE NOT POPULAR, WHICH THE SON OF MAN HAD ALREADY RECOGNIZED, FOR THEY WERE DONE WITH PURE MOTIVE, EXPECTING NOTHING IN RETURN. SELFLESS SERVICE.

49.        Why this rapt quietness? I appreciate it when you look sober. It makes Me to believe that you are pondering over what you are hearing.

50.         A precedent has been laid already. And there is nothing you can do about it. You either subscribe to it or say no to it. But it can never change it. I say, it can never change it. There was one song Voice of The Cross sang in those days.

51.        SONG: [Your works cannot set you free without Christ. O sinner come. Repent my brother. Your works cannot set you free without the Lord. O sinner come and have eternal life]

52.        You can carry the Bible and know the whole Scriptures. You are perishing. You can do all the caporal works of mercy. You are perishing.

53.        YOU MUST KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO BE PRESENTED. IT IS EITHER FAITH OR NOTHING. FAITH IN CHRIST. FAITH IN HIS WORD; IN HIS SPOKEN WORD. THAT IS WHY HE SAID, “COME BELIEVING. COME BELIEVING.”

54.        AND YOU CANNOT BELIEVE AND REMAIN WHERE YOU WERE. THAT YOU HAVE BEEN STANDING WHERE YOU WERE EXPECTING ANOTHER RESULT MEANS YOU ARE UNREASONABLY FOOLISH.

55.        And I will show you where you have been standing before. How many will permit me to host the Sunday school this morning? You know, last Sunday, many were rejoicing that I showed them the way into the Family of God, the Great Family.

56.        Many were rejoicing that they can now find their ways into the Family. Many came to the realization that they were making a hell of noise when they have never identified with that Super Family for one day. I mean, when the Word has marked you out, you are out.

57.        ALWAYS BELIEVE IT THAT THE BIBLE GIVES ME THE PERMISSION TO HONOUR PEOPLE THAT ARE WORKING WITH ME, LIKE THE KING AHASUERUS HONOURED MORDECAI.

58.        YOU CAN STAY ALIVE AND RECEIVE YOUR WREATH. YOU CAN RECEIVE YOUR FLOWERS WHILE YOU ARE ALIVE. 

59.        St. Paul honoured those whose names had already been written by Saint Paul. He documented those names, for he was the Angel Messenger holding the book of records in his day. He knew those that have believed in him and those that are making a fair show of the faith.

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SYNTHETIC FLOWERS

Once you are recommended by the Angel Messenger, you are recommended because he does not recommend anyhow.

2.           I mean, your elders were shocked when they were looking towards the sky, they had already nominated too many names to Me.

3.           I said, “No!” I marked all of them bad. Not even one was qualified. And they were looking for one from the whole Bride in Nigeria, for I gave them the ticket.

4.           I, THE SON OF MAN, will sponsor the transportation to and fro, for whosoever that will fill that gap. I gave them the ticket, “Go from the East to the West. And from North to the South.

5.           They searched and searched. They nominated prominent ones; flamboyant ones. You know the flower we call flamboyant. It is everywhere in the schools and colleges. Very conspicuous.

6.           But here, I gave you a Message titled DO NOT BE A SYNTHETIC FLOWER. Do not be a decorating material in the house of God. You make the house of God look very pretty, cool and gorgeous, like we had many of them in the year 1999 and the year 2000;

7.           Pillars that were standing behind the Fellowship, wearing suits. Elegant and fair to look at. But where are they? Do I mention them? You know all of them, they are all gone. Flamboyant! Conspicuous! Very popular, but they are all empty. Decorating materials.

8.           ONE THING WITH A SYNTHETIC FLOWER IS THAT IT IS MUCH MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN NATURAL FLOWER, BUT IT DOES NOT HAVE NATURAL AROMA.

9.           If you perceive any odour from it, it is perfume. Somebody perfumed it. True or false? Because it is man-made, you can use ordinary water to wash it with soap.

10.        Peel one off, you can never see any sap because it contains no life. But it is very good to decorate the house. Synthetic flower without any natural aroma; without natural fragrance.

11.        I hope we do not have synthetic flowers sitting down here? Of course, we must have many here. Decorating materials, filling the benches without any natural affection.

12.        I am not trying to ridicule anybody because I want you to find yourself back to Him. I am sent as a human being to lay an example; and to be the point of reconciliation. That which is difficult for you to do, I will do it before you. So you have no excuse, for a leader leads by example.

13.        I was asking some Brethren, going by the pictures God revealed Himself; more are coming. Even today, I have more in My house. I have one from Akwa-Ibom. I have two from Kano. They are in My house. One is coming today. And there are too many others. HE IS THE MAN. True or false?

14.        He is not a woman. So I believe that, being a man, this must be The Man that appeared as Gabriel. And with a divine sperm, he impregnated Mary.

15.        Many have not even seen where it is documented in the Bible that there is a divine sperm.

16.        ⁹No one born (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, for God’s nature abides in him [His principle of life, THE DIVINE SPERM, remains permanently within him]; and he cannot practice sinning because he is born (begotten) of God. [1 John 3:9 AMP]

17.        There is a natural one. Whatever that produces naturally is natural, but I will show you the origin of it. This is because once it builds a definite form in you, you are covered. You must know what the Glory of God is all about.

18.        Listen to Me this morning. I am trying to help you into the kingdom. Once you discover where your problem is coming from, you have solved half of it. A problem that is identified is half the solution.

19.        Then you will know whether God will do the rest for you or you will do it. God will help you to identify your problem, but you are to solve it, for He will tell you what you will use to solve it.

20.        You are like one whose sickness has been diagnosed and the drug to take prescribed. Am I making sense? Okay. To God be the glory.

21.        I say, I love you with the love of God, And I will keep on loving you until you hate yourself into the kingdom of darkness; into eternal hell, because you must hate yourself for you to say no to My Word. For you to refuse My Word, you have already hated yourself. True or false?

22.        Let Me begin also to thank Onitsha in particular. When I am thanking Onitsha, although I may generalize it, but the owners know who they are. Do you get the Message?

23.        Yesterday, you had your meeting here. I was not here physically, for I was at home doing a work for you, and not for Myself. Whatever that I am doing now is for you, and not for Me.

24.        And you recognized My presence again even when I was away. So, while I was at home, Pastor Thomas later came in the evening and presented your offerings to Me.

25.        I told him to drop it on the ground. He dropped it and arranged it the way he wanted. I told him to listen to Me. For the first time, I revealed it to him.

26.        I called my little son there Chiemelie to come up with My Bible, let Me show Pastor Thomas something. And I will evoke it on this Altar right now in his presence for the first time.

27.        When I read that Scripture, Pastor Thomas slumped down and shouted that he has never come across it before. He confessed that he has not even heard it.

28.        I said, “Yes, you must not know it or hear it, for the prophet can never tell lies in the Name of God saying, “There are some Words of God spoken by God that are still lying silent because the hour for God to use them has not yet come. The moment the hour comes, he will put it into the mouth of One and He will declare it. And God will now effect it at once.””

29.        Every word of God must be activated. You have your handset. You bought your line [SIM], registered your line and inserted it there. It can never work until it is activated.

30.        You must put the mechanics together. If the mechanics are placed without the dynamics, whatever you have assembled is inactive; inanimate. It can never work. And you cannot realize the objective of your labour.

31.        You are carrying the Bible. It is being sold in the market. You are carrying the Holy Quran. Until God activates it, it can never be powerful and active. Did you get the Message?

32.        The Jews erected their altar to serve Baal. There was no life in what they were serving. There was no life in the altar.

33.        Elijah came. The same altar. He even made matter worst by saying, “Pour twelve tins of water representing twelve tribes of Israel”, so that it will be impossible even to use petrol to light it. It was not another altar. That one, Elijah activated it.

34.        The Word is in your hand without strength. It is there as a letter, and the letter killeth. But it takes God to come and activate the Word because what activates the Word is the Spoken Word.

35.        The Spoken Word injects power into the written Word,and action starts. Let there be light. Light came out. Let there be this, and it appeared.

36.        Even when an object was molded in human form it was lifeless, inanimate. God had to activate it and then man became a living soul.

37.        A mad man can carry the Bible and carry the holy Quran. Anybody can read it. You are carrying a book like other books. The content has no meaning.

38.        And you cannot know the meaning; the real meaning of the Scriptures until the Scriptures are activated and your eyes of understanding are opened, and you begin to capture the real meaning of the Scriptures.

39.        When he expounded their understanding they began to understand the real meaning. But before then, they were erring, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

40.        Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. [Matthew 22:29 KJV]

41.        Christ is the mystery of God revealed. Christ is the wisdom and power of God.

42.        ²⁴But to those who are called, whether Jew or Greek (Gentile), Christ [is] the Power of God and the Wisdom of God. [1 Corinthians 1:24 AMP]

43.        THAT IS WHY WHATEVER IS THE REMEDY IS CHRIST. WHATEVER MIGHT BE THE TROUBLE IN THIS LAST DAYS, THE REMEDY IS CHRIST, WHO IS HERE AS A HUMAN BEING. 

44.        I will read Scriptures, but before then I wanted to demonstrate something in appreciation. A blind man said there is nothing like what you see with your own eyes.

45.        I want the Deacons to come and help Me. Two Deacons! Come and help Me from Onitsha.  I said, from Onitsha. I am specific. Two!

46.        You are a student Deacon. Go and sit down. You are still eating the tail of yam. If you instruct him to cut yam for cooking he will start from the tail end of the yam. When he gets to the head of the yam, he will consider it hard and hide that part of the yam under the bed.

47.        Has this person ever had a sleepless night? Has he ever passed the night watching the ceiling, and not knowing when it is day break?

48.        He has never saluted someone by saying “Good morning” by midnight. He has never answered a surprise telephone call that will make you wrongly salute the caller, “Morning Sir!!!” And looking at the clock, he will realize that it is just 12 midnight, but he is still awake.

49.        He does not yet realize that the person saluting another by saying “Good morning” at midnight has not even taken his bath for the night, not to talk of sleeping at all. Nothing goes for nothing.

50.        Let Me tell you. Do not worry I know what I am talking about. Carry this one, carry this one. Oh! This man does not have strength. Take a look and pass it on to your neighbour. Do not delay. Be fast! Take a look and pass it on to your neighbour. Start here. You can flip through, but do not read.

51.        Take this way. Follow Me. Follow Me. Flip through and show your neighbour. Give it to Me. I told you to flip through. Look! You pass to the left. And you pass to the right.

52.        Nobody is new here. If this house will collapse here now, you are not escaping. I want you to see, while we are thanking you, for it could not have been made possible without your support.

53.        And I thank God we have people who can testify about the works; whether there has been any group of people or an individual that has embarked on a work like this and accomplished it even in one year.

54.        So be fast in passing it around; and continue passing it around. I am not recalling it. I said, “To the left. Then to the right.” Good! Continue. I said, One to the left. When you finish, you pass to the right.” Return it to the right. Good! Correct!

55.        I want everybody to catch a glimpse of what we have done so far because today, I am going to announce the day you are coming to collect it. I will tell you when you are coming to collect your books.

56.        It would have been here today but I was avoiding one thing. DISAPPOINTMENT IS WHAT I HATE. I must be sure and certain. And to be sure and certain means that all of them must be resting in My house before I will announce the date.

57.        Be fast. Yes! Good! Be very fast. If I collect it you have cheated your Brethren. Okay, I will give you thirty minutes to pass it round.

58.        Okay! You can return them. Return them! If you want to see further, when we dismiss, come to My table. If you want to have the advance copy when we dismiss come to My table. Return the four copies. Return them.

59.        Are you satisfied? How do you see the work? I mean it is unbelievable that this type of thing could emanate from this handpicked minority perceived to be poor, yet making many rich.

60.        From the time we uploaded the books, too many people have enriched their spiritual knowledge. And they are using the Messages to empower their churches and their families, which is the essence of Christ appearing here.

61.        Last Sunday, we saw the Nicodemus who came drawn from the highest enthronement of the Jews and said, “Master, we all know that you came from God with the truth. You have come to help us know the truth.”

62.        And he came by night. What we thought was a secret was blown to the whole world, including you and I. So I give God the praise.

63.        Let me continue to appreciate Onitsha, not to the neglect of others. No! Onitsha is the masterpiece as far as what I am saying is concerned. It might be unknown to others.

64.        I enquired and I was told that the turnout was encouraging as well; As it has always been. And they deliberated on too many things in the best interest of everybody; not only here in Nigeria but globally.

65.        Last week we succeeded in obtaining permission from the school authorities to use this place for the Youth Conference. One-day Conference. Absolutely youth affairs.

66.        Only those that had already been written will participate, outside the youth, mainly their guest speakers drawn from many places.

67.        Like I was telling you that the Elders were looking up to the sky, doing their best nominating this and that until they got tired of their nomination. And they were wondering, “Who could be this person that was hidden from their knowledge?”

68.        Then, when I mentioned the name, all of them sprang up from their seat. Even My own very wife heard it and shouted inside the room, “Perfect!” Hidden, but not before the LORD.

69.        I give God the praise that all the nominees should know that nobody nominated them, but the Almighty. And He believes that they are in Him.

70.        Do not worry. There may be another thing that will climax this year. I mean the end of the year. It may not be the conference. It may not be the distribution of the books.

71.        About this time last year, we were busy preparing ourselves for the conference we had at the University of Nigeria Enugu campus. And I told you that after that, you would not see a repeat occurrence in a place like that.

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MISPLACED FAITH

Keep on following Me gradually, because the whole thing is narrowing down to the end. Do not be shocked that you are still seeing new new faces in your midst.

2.           You will keep on seeing new new faces until the day you will know who is who. They might be new before you, but you do not know that they were there before the world began.

3.           And they had been following more than you who are merely claiming to have him as your townsman. You are claiming his birthright, but they are claiming something greater than birthright.

4.           If you are claiming a birthright, be very careful. If you can go to the Message I gave you long ago titled MISPLACED FAITH, your faith can be misplaced. I say, your faith can be misplaced.

5.           There are some people like the Jews who were placing their faith on signs and wonders to the neglect of the Word of God, wherein lies eternal life.

6.           Peter said, “To whom do we go to seeing that you alone have the word of eternal life. And we are sure and certain.”

7.           ⁶⁸Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. ⁶⁹And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. [John 6:68 – 69 KJV]

8.           But some placed their faith on miracles, signs and wonders. Hence, they could say, “Show us a sign that we may believe.”

9.           Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. [Matthew 12:38 KJV]

10.        Even with all the signs He showed, that was not enough. They needed more signs and wonders, while some placed their faith on what they could get materially.

11.        Jesus discerned their heart and said “You are following Me, not because you are believing My Word, but because you ate and drank. I supplied you food. I supplied you drink. I am doing many things for you. For that reason you are milling around Me.” Is it not a misplaced faith?

12.        While some placed their own faith on the fact that He is our relation, “Whosoever that has Abraham as his or her father can never stumble to hellfire.” He is my townsman. You have misplaced it.

13.        Make sure you place your faith right. Your faith should not rest on any other thing than the revealed, engrafted Word of God which is able to sanctify you and give you a place among those that are sanctified by the faith of Christ.

14.        You must know where you have been fixing your faith. So any faith placed outside the revealed Word which is Christ revealed in your day is a misplaced faith, for the Word has been made flesh and it is now dwelling among you.

15.        ¹IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. [John 1:1 AMP]

16.        ^[14]And Christ became a human being and lived here on earth among us and was full of loving forgiveness* and truth. And some of us have seen his glory*—the glory of the only Son of the heavenly Father!*[John 1:14 LB]

17.        If you place your faith on riches, you have missed it all. Am I making sense?

18.        Let Me go back. I want to continue my praise to Onitsha. While I am commending Onitsha, those who know that they are the real beneficiaries should rejoice exceedingly.

19.        But if you know that you are not numbered among the real beneficiaries, do not rejoice. I told you clearly that the Almighty God refused your offering. How?

20.        Through Whosoever that is representing Him, for the name of God must be placed on somebody in every dispensation.

21.        Somebody must bear the name. There must be a chosen vessel, there must be a beloved in whom He is well pleased. Who you will hear at all times.

22.        ^[28]So Jesus, in a sermon in the Temple, called out, “Yes, you know Me and where I was born and raised, BUT I AM THE REPRESENTATIVE OF ONE YOU DON’T KNOW, and He is Truth. [John 7:28 LB]

23.        ²⁰Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. ²¹Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: FOR MY NAME IS IN HIM. [Exodus 23:20 – 21 KJV]

24.        ⁵While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, THIS IS MY BELOVED SON, IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED; HEAR YE HIM. [Matthew 17:5 KJV]

25.        God does not use many voices. He uses only but One Voice. That is why He warned in Ecclesiastes saying, “Concerning the words spoken by more than one messenger, be warned. Do not pay attention.”

26.        It must be One Flock, One Shepherd. One Voice, One God. God is not two. He is not three. You cannot partner anything with God.

27.        Now let me go back and praise Onitsha through the Scriptures, peradventure somebody that has the spirit of truth will capture it.

28.        I did not want to go to the New Testament, but I will say it before I give you the Sunday school, because you said you would like Me to talk to you.

29.        I was thinking that what I gave you last week will be enough. The Message is out in print. You will get your copies next Sunday. You know the topic; YOU ARE NOT TOO FAR FROM THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT ONE THING REMAINETH. 

30.        And all of you acknowledged that you are not too far from the Kingdom of Heaven.

31.        BY THE REVELATION OF THE WORD OF GOD IN YOUR OWN DAY, THE REVELATION OF CHRIST; BY YOUR BELIEF OF THE TRUTH, YOU ARE NOT TOO FAR FROM THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT ONE THING REMAINETH.

32.        WHAT IS THAT ONE THING? MANIFESTATION OF TRUTH IN YOUR PERSONAL LIFE. ONE THING REMAINETH. YOU HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE; YOU HAVE BELIEVED THE TRUTH, BUT TO MANIFEST THE TRUTH HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT,

33.        Why? You stopped at Satan’s level. Satan was not too far from the Kingdom of Heaven. He missed it narrowly by whiskers. And then vowed a vow that nobody will ever find himself in Paradise.

34.        ³⁹[Iblîs (Satan)] said: “O my Lord! Because you misled me, I shall indeed adorn the path of error for them (mankind) on the earth, and I shall mislead them all. ⁴⁰“Except Your chosen, (guided) slaves among them.” [Surah 15:39 – 40 Hilali-Khan]

35.        All of them will stop at Satan’s level by going to church, carrying the Bible, speaking the truth, knowing the truth, but will never ever manifest it.

36.        The devil knows the truth, the devil believes the truth, confesses the truth, but never lived the life of the truth because the nature is not in him.

37.        ²⁷Now when Jesus stepped out on land, there met Him a certain man out of the town who had [was possessed by] demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he lived not in a house but in the tombs.

38.        ²⁸And when he saw Jesus, he raised a deep (terrible) cry [from the depths of his throat] and fell down before Him [in terror] and shouted loudly, What have You [to do] with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? [ What have we in common?] I beg You, do not torment me! [Luke 8:27 – 28 AMP]

39.        Nobody goes to church more than the devil. Devil goes to church more than any other person. Wherever children of God gathered the devil is there because his own children are in the majority.

40.        ⁶Now there was a day when the sons (the angels) of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan (the adversary and accuser) also came among them. ⁷And the Lord said to Satan, From where did you come? Then Satan answered the Lord, From going to and fro on the earth and from walking up and down on it. [Job 1:6 – 7 AMP]

41.        The Apostles noticed the presence of the devil. He said “If the Devil is not afraid of masquerading himself as an angel of light, how dare you think that his followers will not masquerade themselves, present themselves as Messengers of righteousness and as children of God?

42.        ¹³For such men are false apostles [spurious, counterfeits], deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles (special messengers) of Christ (the Messiah). ¹⁴And it is no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light; ¹⁵So it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. [But] their end will correspond with their deeds. [2 Corinthians 11:13 – 15 AMP]

43.        You must know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Do not just believe because you see somebody shouting, “In the name of Jesus”, or Yahweh, or Jehovah, or Yeshua.

44.        Whatever you like call Him. It is your right. The devil believes that God is one. Is it not scriptures? The Bible said you believe that God is one, the devil also believes and confesses it.

45.        You believe that Christ is beloved, the devil not only believes. He also testifies that He is the son of the Most High God.

46.        ¹¹And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God. ¹²And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known. [Mark 3:11 – 12 KJV]

47.        ²⁸And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

48.        ²⁹And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? [Matthew 8:28 – 29 KJV]

49.        You know the Name of God. They also know the Name. But did He go further? No!He [devil] does not have the life. He does not have the spirit to manifest the life of Christ.

50.        You performed signs and wonders. The devil can call down fire. The devil can even cause the dead to come back to life. The devil can perform all miracles and signs, but he can never live the life of God because the spirit of God is not in him.

51.        ¹³He performs great signs (startling miracles), even making fire fall from the sky to the earth in men’s sight. [Revelation 13:13 AMP]

52.        So you must be sure of where you are stopping and you are professing that you are saved, lest it will be ordinary euphoria. You might be in hell and you think that you are in heaven.

53.        THAT IS WHY YOU MUST EXAMINE YOUR STAND FROM TIME TO TIME TO KNOW WHETHER YOU ARE HOLDING THE FAITH OF CHRIST AND BEARING PROGRESSIVELY THE FRUIT THEREOF.

54.        THIS IS BECAUSE, BY YOUR FRUIT; BY THE MANIFESTATION OF YOUR CHARACTER IN ALL SITUATIONS, WE CAN GIVE YOU A NAME. YOUR NAME IS YOUR CHARACTER. TRUE OR FALSE?

55.        I do not know why. Let Me go back again. Onitsha! I am still thanking you. If you can continue, I believe that with time, you will begin to improve by revelation of Who He is.

56.        And I will show you the difference between the previous and the present so that you may begin now to work on the true movement. If I am thanking you, I am thanking you for starting, not that you have come up. No!

57.        At least, you have recognized the unrecognized Christ which has been the guilt of people in every age. The unrecognized God in their midst has been their problem.

58.        If you have recognized Him and you begin to give Him the honour due to Him, I believe that with time, you will begin to improve. Is it not true? You improve on what you have initiated.

59.        But if you have not initiated anything, there is no room for improvement or advancement. Good! I am coming to something because of your wonderful deed.

60.        I was not considering the amount; whether it is five naira or twenty naira. No! no no! But I was considering something and I told Pastor Thomas the reason why I have decided to evoke it.

61.        All along, I have been pouring everything out before you, to your shame and ridicule because you do not know Him that existed from the very beginning. You do not know that He is the one standing here.

62.        You are not giving somebody to go and give Him. You are going straight. You are all seating and standing before THE VERY SON OF MAN.

63.        THERE IS NO MEDIATOR BETWEEN YOU AND THE SON OF MAN. THIS IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUR DISPENSATION AND PREVIOUS ONES. IN PREVIOUS ONES, PEOPLE WERE REPRESENTING HIM. I AM NOT REPRESENTING ANYBODY. I AM HE.

64.        I TOLD YOU THAT I HAVE COME TO STAY. I AM NOT AN ANGEL MESSENGER OF ANY AGE. HAVE I MINCED WORDS FROM THE BEGINNING? AND I HAVE TOLD YOU THAT THE FATHER IS DWELLING IN ME, BEARING MY NAME.

65.        When Jesus Christ was there, nobody was a mediator between people and Jesus Christ. Remember, Jesus Christ is still alive forever more, but in the form they know not, for they did not accept Him before. Will they accept Him now?

66.        He is no longer with the Jews. You know where He came? When He appeared He needed no intermediary; no mediator between you and Christ. I hope I am making sense?

67.        When they were limping between two opinions, He narrowed His Ministry down to those whom He appointed and elected for salvation.

68.        You know why He told them, “You pray to Me. And I tell you always, I will ask the Father and He will grant your request, but I want to tell you, “A day cometh, and now is that day, when you will no longer pray to me and I will tell you I will ask the Father and He will grant your request, for that will be absolutely unnecessary. Whatever is that request mention it. Ask, and before your eyes, I will do it here, that you may know and believe that I AM HE.”

69.        ¹³And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. ¹⁴You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. [John 14:13 – 14 NIV]

70.        ²³In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. ²⁴Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

71.        ²⁵“Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. ²⁶In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. [John 16:23 – 26 NIV]

72.        And the people chilled. Then, Peter remembered the experience when three of them were there with Him on the Mount of transfiguration. They saw what happened.

73.        Three person’s appeared. The old testament and the law all culminated into One Man. He put an end to the law and to the prophet, and then presented One.

74.        If I never appeared, you will be swimming in the law; Impossible road to Heaven. If I never appeared, you will be marking and punctuating all your messages with THUS SAITH THE LORD, to enable your people believe that you are telling the truth.

75.        You will be inspiring the spirit of prophesy as a confirmation to what you are saying to be the truth. So, without speaking in tongues and prophecy, pushing people down and making a hell of noise, nobody will believe that God is there.

76.        But when He said, “Now that I have revealed who I am; the veil is rent into two. You will never hear any prophecy again, for I have gone back to my original way. I will visit you through your visions and dreams. I will visit you through the Spoken Word. I will visit you live by confronting you in human form. If I know, I will present Myself to you once, and you will not see Me again. I can even pay you visit in My Theophany body, that you may believe actually that I AM HE.”

77.        And I will begin My journey, revealing My Theophany body to many. I thank God for the testimony you heard, that had THE SON OF MAN calling them, and they were running Helter-skelter.

78.        He called them three times, and they saw Him when he was driving out, they were hearing His Voice in the yard. And they were running about, looking for Him in the house.

79.        He came back and told them, “I called you. The Voice came, not because of you, but because of Brother Stephen. And Brother Stephen has not thought about that Voice till today.

80.        All of them confirmed they heard it. And they were running up and down. And they knew I drove off. I do not fill the earth alone. I fill the heavens and the earth at the same time.

81.        There is no where you will be, and I will not see you. Unless I do not want to see you. If I do not want to see you, I will just block you out. Your name will be in my black list, so that you will never call unless I call.

82.        LET ME TELL YOU. WHATEVER YOU ARE SEEING SCIENTISTS PRODUCING, THEY ARE PROTOTYPES OF THE ORIGINAL. Nobody puts people’s names in the blacklist more than the Almighty.

83.        You pray and pray, but your prayer can never go beyond your ceiling. You cry and cry, no response. Whatever you like do it. Your name has already been blacklisted. You will be standing in his presence, but you can never communicate with Him again, for he has switched off.

84.        It is better you hear that His line is engaged so that once it disengages, your own will come in. Let Me tell you what I love in the phone. I love “Switched off” more than “Not reachable.” I want to hear, “It is switched off.” It is better than to say, “Not reachable”, but the line is on.

85.        It then means that you have wandered away where God’s love can no longer reach and protect you. Another one I hate is that my phone is on silence; “It was ringing but I did not know that it was ringing.” Very hateful! I say, very hateful.

86.        So to Onitsha, if you happen to be in the number, you will know. If you are not in the number, you will know.

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FIRST STEP IN WORSHIP STARTS WITH OFFERING

Turn with Me to the Book of first Chronicles chapter 29. Remember! They were giving directly to the Messiah. Hence, He spotted the woman who only gave her widow’s mite. True or false?

2.           ⁴¹Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts.

3.           ⁴²But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny. ⁴³Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.

4.           Was Jesus Christ not there? Was He not there live? Who were they giving the offering to? Was it not Him who spotted the woman? He was the one.

5.           Then, when He left the scene, they thought He was no longer coming to Fellowship. They could see Apostle Peter whom He gave the keys of hell and heaven. And they did not know that He was there representing Him with the name Peter, and no longer Jesus Christ.

6.           Who could discern the heart, if not God? They knew He resurrected. He appeared for some time, and then He vanished. They forgot what He told them, “I will never never leave you. I will come again. I will be with you.”

7.           They never knew He was there on the worship day. God goes to church. This time around, He was standing there. Ananias came there to tell lies. Who discerned the heart? God! Using who? The Badger skin was Peter, who was there to receive the offering?

8.           Giving of false offering killed Ananias, and also killed the wife, Sapphira. False offering! Lying offering! Is it all? Ananias said, “That is all.”

9.           Ananias, why are you lying against the Holy Ghost?  Is this money not your own? If you did not want to give, you could have used your money. Nobody would have queried you. Why volunteering to give and you are giving falsely? Was it what God bestowed with you?

10.        You think God does not know? Because you are coming to tempt God with money, and lying before Him, you are slumping dead and will be buried in our premises as a restraint to others.

11.        Was it in the Old Testament? Was it under the law? Under Grace! The wife came and joined in the iniquity of the family. What happened? She equally paid the price. And the eyes of others opened.

12.        That is why; check the Act of the Apostles. You can never see any false giving. No false offering until AD 70. Titus conquered Christianity and everything; transferred the whole thing to Rome, and idolatry reigned.

13.        Reformers came. When the reformers came, they restored tithe. That was what they knew, for that was what they were living up to. Truth never came back.

14.        The prophet came and told them to go back to Pentecost. 1965! There you collect the truth. And that was where they abandoned Christ. That is where you will go and pick the original baton.

15.        And he could not go. Being a prophet, he foretold that One was coming after him, Who will come with a Message straight on to the Bible. And that when He comes, the Bible will be a new book;

16.        He told them that he does not know doctrine, and that he does not know anything. Being a prophet, that he was only coming with THUS SAYETH THE LORD, but HE that will come, will lay down doctrines and refer you to apostolic faith.

17.        While he [the prophet] left the scene, the promised Vessel came, went to Pentecost, collected the baton and told you, “This is a relay race.”

18.        Running without the original baton. Now the original baton has been picked, doctrines restored and everything came back.

19.        You brought archeological parchment, and Caiaphas told you that this Man committed atrocities by lowering the standard of their own belief; that this man said nobody should pay tithe; nobody should observe all Sabbath rituals and festivals; And that the man did away with all of them.

20.        Without going through parchment and so on, these doctrines had already been nailed down.

21.        How do you trace the Rabbi? How do you trace the Mahdi? Is it not in the light of His belief? How do you know that you are a part of him? Is it not believing what He believes and doing what he does? Is His action contrary to his belief? The answer is no!

22.        Then do you not know that death is looming, but for one thing? He is testing your heart, not that God is hungry. If He is hungry, He will never tell anybody.

23.        From the very beginning, God uses free will offering to test the heart of children of God, for He is the one that offers His own life freely. And He tests the heart of all, using what He bestowed them with.

24.        Who has ever survived there? First step, you are falling. Why taking the second step? FIRST STEP IN WORSHIP STARTS WITH OFFERING.YOU OFFER YOURSELF. YOU OFFER WHAT GOD HAS BESTOWED ON YOU.

25.        When you have failed number one, why climbing to number two. You are making matters worse. If you do not passSS1 and you jump to SS2, you are doing more harm to yourself than good.

26.        No matter how you try to interpret it, you will discover that you are still on the guilty side. That is why, when I was meditating, I began to see many things. I began to see too many altars. Three altars. The three altars, I will mention now.

27.        Last Sunday, My altar and the pulpit was the other side, not that they were guiltier than any other as per the Message YOU ARE NOT TOO FAR FROM THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN BUT ONE THING REMAINETH.

28.        You remember I found it difficult to go to the pulpit till I was rounding off. But I was there. This time, I have mounted it here. Amen.

29.        I said, “Three Altars must be recognized, for you to choose one.” I am not talking about the Jeroboam’s altar. I am not talking about the altar in Bethel or in Dan. I am not talking about the altar in Shiloh. I am not talking about the altar in Gilgal. No no no! I am not talking about places of worships.

30.        I AM TALKING ABOUT THE ALTAR. REMEMBER, WE HAVE AN ALTAR. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? IF THE SON OF MAN NEVER APPEARED, YOU WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN THAT CHILDREN OF GOD HAVE AN ALTAR.

31.        ONE ALTAR WHERE ANYBODY THAT IS CONTINUING IN THE LAWS OF MOSES CAN NEVER EVER BE HELPED. WE HAVE AN ALTAR. IF ANY FIGMENT OF IT IS TRACED IN YOUR LIFE, YOU CAN NEVER WORSHIP ON THAT ALTAR AND THAT ALTAR CAN NEVER HELP. AND I AM THE ALTAR.

32.        THE ALTAR MEANS THE MERCY SEAT. I AM THE MERCY SEAT. ALTAR MEANS THE MERCY SEAT. IF I SAY GO TO THE ALTAR, I AM TELLING YOU GO TO THE MERCY SEAT.

33.        IT IS AT THE ALTAR THAT YOU POUR YOUR HEART OUT. THERE, YOU POUR YOUR CONFESSIONS OUT TO THE ALMIGHTY. AND THERE, YOU OBTAIN MERCY.

34.        Pay attention! I am coming to something. What we have, according to the Hebrews, is a Living Altar, and not an altar where you sacrifice bullocks, rams, no. This is the altar that is dripping with blood, not the blood of an animal. There, you get your cleansing.

JEZEBEL’S ALTAR

35.        I am saying that we have THREE ALTARS you have to recognize. We have what we call Jezebel’s altar. Jezebel’s altar is an altar in your family. It is an altar in your family were your wife who does not believe the truth is the overseer

36.        Everything that is coming out of that family must be influenced by the decision of the wife directly or indirectly, and that altar raises mean persons.

37.        It raises liars and traitors. Abominable people who run around a woman, using the woman to get the favour of the husband.

38.        And the moment one raises Jezebel’s altar, Naboth must die as a result of Jezebel’s covetousness. Jezebel takes authority of the man upon her hand. Jezebel executes that which she thought the husband lacks the power to execute, being a coward.

39.        This is because, to Jezebel the husband is a coward. And in order to please the Jezebel, the coward will keep quiet, surrender authority, surrender seal, surrender power, surrender the execution to the powerful woman.

40.        Remember, we are warring against the super woman. Super Woman! Apostle Ugo, is it not true? Go to the Bible and see the super woman. I have Apostles here.

41.        Super woman! That is why we are living in a woman’s world, where women exercise greater influence to the society than men.

42.        So, check your altar, and see whether it is Jezebel’s altar. And you know what Jezebel is known for? Not only wickedness towards fellow human beings, claiming to be hospitable and generous. No!

43.        She is one that hates God and God’s people. She hates anything spiritual. She loves social life more than spiritual life. True or false?

44.        Hence, we could see too many daughters of Jezebels everywhere. Daughters of Jezebels everywhere. They love pleasures more than God. They do not love God. They do not withstand even trials of hard times. No!

45.        These Jezebels can even lure their husbands to kill innocent people for money making. They can push their husbands to take another man’s property. There is nothing they will not do.

46.        And men that have such altars do not please God. They please their wives and innocent people must be murdered. They know how to hire liars for a pay to come and testify against an innocent man that he might be crucified.

47.        So, there is no way you can raise a Jezebel’s altar without crucifying an innocent man or woman.

NABAL’S ALTAR

48.        Another altar is the opposite of the other one I mentioned. That is Nabal’s altar. Nabal’s altar is built upon a stingy man that has authority over his wealth, but never generous to God’s people.

49.        Whenever he gives alms, he is giving for popularity. He is giving to be recognized. He wants to be called the good man, when he is dastardly bad. That is Nabal. Am I making sense?

50.        And watch the Nabal’s family. He is always in disagreement with a generous wife. The wife will only be suggesting generosity, but the man will be asking why? What for?

51.        Nabal is a man that is an ingrate. If you do him good, he will pay you back with evil. He does not know how to do give generously, but the wife is highly generous; for which cause there is always a clash in the home.

52.        And as a result of his stinginess and lack of almsgiving, that causes the wife to take it upon herself to save souls in their family. For if the man was to be looked up to, every soul in that family will be murdered by David. Why?

53.        A hungry man is an angry man. The moment you build Nabal’s altar, David and the people of God must die of starvation. Hunger will compel them to do what they never wanted to do. And God will justify them.

54.        Two different altars. One, the man was willing, but the wife was not willing. This time, the woman is willing, but the man is unwilling. All of them representing families. I hope am making sense?

ABRAHAM’S ALTAR

55.        But watch! There must be another altar. Abraham’s altar. Abraham’s altar where Abraham and Sarah were walking in unison. This is the altar where the man can never take the woman unaware, for the woman was ever willing to serve. She is willing. Readiness is there.

56.        The man went out and came back with three visitors which they never discussed; He never knew he was meeting people. And one of them became Sarah’s greatest enemy.

57.        Sarah sank the difference and generously welcomed them. She generously served them and lavished everything in agreement with the husband. What happened? God showered his blessings. True or false? I say, true or false?

58.        Watch what you are raising, and see whether you are raising Abraham’s altar, where selfless sacrifice is made even to the tune of sacrificing Isaac. No regrets!

59.        See whether you are raising Nabal’s altar or Jezebel’s altar.

60.        Do you know why God said, “I love Abraham. He is my friend. He is able to lead his entire family to Me; to worship Me and to serve Me. He is able to command His whole household; pointing the attention of the whole household to God, and not with hypocrisy.

61.        Can you imagine God coming from his journey from afar? Abraham met Him while Abraham was returning from a warfare and recognized him immediately. What did he do? He ran back and bowed down.

62.        And then God demanded nothing, but Abraham presented everything. He said, “No, give Me a tenth.” In return, He showered Abraham with what he needed as a man coming down from battle. And gave him bread.

63.        And Christ is the bread of life. You must know the first step towards worshipping God. When you acknowledge Him to be God, believe Him to be God and know Him to be God, what next? Sacrifice first.

64.        Watch wherever God visited a people. If you watch in the New Testament, Saint John visited Brethren and started commending them, how they were receiving their fellow minister who were going about preaching, to the extent of harbouring them, feeding them and sending them away with generous gift. Is it not scriptural?

65.        ^[1]From: John, the Elder. To: Dear Gaius, whom I truly love. ^[2]Dear friend, I am praying that all is well with you and that your body is as healthy as I know your soul is.

66.        ^[3]Some of the brothers traveling by have made me very happy by telling me that your life stays clean and true and that you are living by the standards of the Gospel.

67.        ^[4]I could have no greater joy than to hear such things about my children. ^[5]Dear friend, you are doing a good work for God in taking care of the traveling teachers and missionaries who are passing through.

68.        ^[6]They have told the church here of your friendship and your loving deeds. I am glad when you send them on their way with a generous gift.

69.        ^[7]For they are traveling for the Lord and take neither food, clothing, shelter, nor money from those who are not Christians, even though they have preached to them. [3 John 1 – 7 LB]

70.        But he met one who erected Nabal’s altar. Diotrephes, who resisted, calling them evil names; and even excommunicated from their midst those who received Messengers of God without his authority.

71.        ^[9]I sent a brief letter to the church about this, but proud Diotrephes, who loves to push himself forward as the leader of the Christians there, does not admit my authority over him and refuses to listen to me.

72.        ^[10]When I come I will tell you some of the things he is doing and what wicked things he is saying about me and what insulting language he is using. He not only refuses to welcome the missionary travelers himself but tells others not to, and when they do he tries to put them out of the church. [3 John 9 – 10 LB]

73.        He was not willing to serve, and he does not want others to serve. Yet, he claims to be a minister in the church. Where is he going to? Flamboyant flower.

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GOD WATCHES YOUR HEART

et Me go to the Message I have for Onitsha. What I have is just My salutations to Onitsha. I have already evoked it. I say, I have already evoked it. I have activated it.

2.           I have never done it all this while because I have not seen the reason why I should activate it until yesterday.

3.           I saw one offering amidst the rest. I saw one amidst the rest on the ground. And if I mention it, he that gave it is here.

4.           GOD DOES NOT ACCEPT YOUR OFFERING AS A RESULT OF THE QUANTITY. NO! HE WATCHES THE STATE OF THE HEART.

5.           Can you imagine God abandoning everything people put there and recommended a woman that put a penny? And that was her last dime. Nobody saw it, but God saw it. Nobody knew that such a thing could take place, but God.

6.           So because of that singular offering; I know the person that gave it. The person is here.

7.           You see, Saint Paul was commending the churches; Who knew this people. He said, “Look at this Philippian church. They were giving out of want, not out of plenty.” Did you get the Message?

8.           ¹⁵Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you only; [Philippians 4:15 NIV]

9.           If you watch Thessalonians, he [Paul] was commending the Thessalonians that, in spite of their problems and hardship, they were still generously giving.

10.        Not when you have, your cup is full and it is pouring on the ground, then you will allow the vultures to pick the crumbs on the ground.

11.        I said that what happened yesterday was an eye opener to many; and will remain an eye opener because if I tell you what the person prayed for, it then means I am revealing everything. No! It is personal.

12.        Jesus said that there was one that gave the greatest. There were too many widows, but He said, “She is a widow.” Did He mention her name?

13.        Rather, He said, “Wherever the gospel of Christ is preached throughout the ends earth, this particular woman, the offering, her deed must be remembered.” He said her deed, not her name. And her name is nothing but her deed.

14.        IT IS WHAT YOU DID THAT IS YOUR NAME. TRUE OR FALSE?

15.        Remember somebody was called a child of consolation. Because of the role he played, God called him a child of consolation to Me.

16.        That is why there is nothing you are doing in the Lord that can be forgotten. There is nothing like oversight before God, oversight does not exist before God.

17.        Turn with Me to 1^st Chronicles 29 verses 17 through 19. Different translations. Pay attention, Onitsha.

18.        Living Bible. ^[17]I know, my God, that YOU TEST MEN TO SEE IF THEY ARE GOOD;…You do what? YOU TEST MEN TO SEE IF THEY ARE GOOD;…

19.        You test both men and women. All of you are called men because you are human beings. But silly people will say that God is referring to men. After all, I am a woman. 

20.        You want God to be writing your name as woman. Are you not Brethren? Are you not members of the same Family? The Family is made of males and females. You are a human being. I know God. He tests human beings.

21.        ^[17]I know, my God, that YOU TEST MEN TO SEE IF THEY ARE GOOD;… To see what? …IF THEY ARE GOOD;…To see what? …IF THEY ARE GOOD; FOR YOU ENJOY GOOD MEN. Does He enjoy evil men and women?

22.        I HAVE DONE ALL THIS WITH GOOD MOTIVES, AND I HAVE WATCHED YOUR PEOPLE OFFER THEIR GIFTS WILLINGLY AND JOYOUSLY. Alleluia!

23.        Nobody pressurizing them. Nobody persuading them. Nobody using any sweet tongue. No! I must watch! Who did He watch? God’s people. It is not everybody that is here that belongs to God. He knows those that are His. And nobody teaches those that are His how to perform these rites.

24.        …and I have watched your people offer their gifts WILLINGLY AND JOYOUSLY. Willingly and joyously.

25.        Remember, in the New Testament, it said, “Not grumbling. Not murmuring. Not complaining. ”It is not giving and you are telling God that you are hungry. Not regretting, but willingly and joyfully.

26.        And I was watching the thing on the ground with a view to knowing who could be this hand that dropped this thing willingly and joyfully; out of penury, and out of want.

27.        If I use “he”, eyes will be flickering. If I use “she”, eyes will be flickering. Let the person remain anonymous and without gender, for I am having dealings with difficult people.

28.        Any statement I make, they have their interpretation. Are they not difficult people? Whatever statement I make, they have already known the interpretation which may be one million miles away from what I have in mind.

29.        I know My God. He tests the heart of men and women to see whether they are good. And I watched your people give their offering and their gifts, willingly and joyfully. And I am doing it out of good motives. I am not happy having any impure motive.

30.        ^[18]“O Lord, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel! [Jacob]Make your people always want to obey you,…Do what? “Make your people always want to obey you, … Just like that particular person obeyed.

31.        …and see to it that their love for you never changes.^[19]Give my son Solomon a good heart toward God, so that he will want to obey you in the smallest detail…

32.        So that he will want to obey you even in the smallest thing. Not in the biggest. another translation let’s get the full impact of the package.

33.        1 Chronicles 29 verse 17 through 18. Amplified version. ¹⁷I know also, my God, that You try the heart and delight in uprightness…. You try the heart. You delight yourself in the upright.

34.        … In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy Your people who are present here offer voluntarily and freely to You.

35.        ¹⁸O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the minds of Your people, and direct and establish their hearts toward You. AMP

36.        New International Version. ¹⁷I know, my God,that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. …

37.        How many believe that God knows the heart? How many know that God tests the heart? And he is very much pleased with people with integrity.

38.        Do you know what it means to have integrity? People that are dependable and reliable. People that you can confide in, and not those that are given over to variableness. No!

39.        ¹⁷I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things have I given willingly and with honest intent. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given to you.¹⁸O Lord, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Israel, KEEP THIS DESIRE IN THEHEARTS OF YOUR PEOPLE FOREVER, and keep their hearts loyal to you.NIV

40.        Keep these desires and thoughts in the heart of who? Your own children. Have you wondered why this has never been evoked all this while? Instead, your offerings were poured here publicly as a disgrace.

41.        But yesterday, you saw what you gave in your waterproof. It was nothing to write home about. If the collective offering was useless, what can you say about that one? But in the midst of that nonsense, there was one.

42.        Pastor Thomas used to count, but yesterday, I commanded him not to count. But did you count? You did not count. You just arranged. Did you count?

43.        Have I ever told you to count before? You were counting. Have I ever condemned you for your counting? I have never. At times, I will abandon you and go away.

44.        Yesterday, you never knew I was watching you. You arranged. You tied. You did not count. It was when you sat down that I called for the Bible.

45.        And then, I opened up because many do not know that I am no longer here as Moses. Neither am I here as Joshua. I am not here for anybody. I am not here as Paul, Martin, Columba, Irenaeus or William Brahman.

46.        Nobody is collecting the offering of My children for Me. I am the One collecting it, because I am the One that gave first. I first loved you. Nobody here ever loved Me first. Where were you before you loved Me.

47.        If you do not believe that I am the One, then whose photograph is there? Where did you get the photographs? Did it transcend from the sky?

48.        In whom is the Father revealed? Is the Father revealed for many of you? If you are following the Cloud, where is the Cloud? I mean, whether you say Cloud by day or fire by night; or you say the Godhead;

49.        Whatever you are saying, the totality is that the fullness of the Godhead is dwelling in Apostle Peter Odoemena (Blessed be to His Holy Name) in this age, and nowhere else throughout the whole planet [universe] up to this day.

50.        And now at last, He has made Himself known to the whole world. And nobody raised an eyebrow to criticize or to say no; or why Nigeria? Or why Africa?

51.        Rather, we see evidences that He is not here by human design or by accident. His Parousia had already been predestinated, foreordained and prophesied before He came into existence.

52.        And He is only revealed at last. And you happened to be among human beings that appeared where he is revealed. You are enjoying a privilege and not a right.

53.        But you are abusing privilege. If you are given a privilege and you abuse it, it would be withdrawn. True or false?

54.        Whatever He is doing among you, He is doing it because He wants to. We received a prophecy that we are here embracing Him as God, and we do not understand. But now, we have understood. Have you understood?

55.        Can you imagine what evoked the activation of this past truth that has been lying silent? Just like the one I activated last Sunday, The unrecognized God among you.

56.        He came to His own, but His own never recognized Him. But as many that recognized Him and welcomed Him, He gave them the power to become the sons and daughters of God, even to those that believed in His Name.

57.        Those who say they believe the Father only, He told them, “Believe in My Father. Believe also in Me, for I and My Father are One. You cannot separate Me from my Father. You cannot separate My Father from Me. We do not have two offices. One is the visible representation of the invisible Deity.” Amen

58.        If you are told to take food to a shrine, do you go to the forest reserved for the idol? Even if you stay there till daybreak, you will not see anything. Is it a lie?

59.        If you are told to take food to the idol, you will take the thing straight to the chief priest of the idol. You will then give him both the fowl and the goat and everything as you were commanded.

60.        If he receives it from you, you thank him because he has received it. You turn immediately and dance all the way home. Whether he will throw it away or not, it is no longer your business.

61.        Do you go to Solomon and still look for another person? When he entered the temple, what happened? The cloud overshadowed Him. Did you not understand anything there?

62.        When you go to Shiloh and meet the prophet Eli, do you look for another person? When you see Moses, do you look for another person? With your own eyes, you will see the Personality.

63.        HE THAT WAS HERE BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN IS HERE LIVE, AND TALKING, SIMPLY BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU. THERE IS NO OTHER REASON.

64.        So whoever that person might be, although you know yourself, believe that God also knows you and God also heard your prayers which you made at home before coming.

65.        Although you started limping between two opinions, whether to go or not to go; you were weighing between your transport fare and what you have.

66.        But fortunately for you, you were given a lift to this place and what could have become a transport fare became your offering. You wanted to trek home, but while going home, you were given a lift.

67.        Why not believe that He saw you? I do not need to mention your name, but if you like, you can tell your neighbour that “I am the one”, so that they will know that you are the one that disclosed it.

68.        The widow knew she was the one. There were widows, but that particular widow knew she was the one that gave one penny out of want, and with a generous heart.

69.        When you get home you can read the prayers. I have already evoked the prayers.

70.        1^st Chronicles 29:17 – 18 NIV.¹⁷I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things have I given willingly and with honest intent. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given to you.¹⁸O Lord, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Israel, keep this desire in the hearts of your people forever, AND KEEPTHEIR HEARTS LOYAL TO YOU. NIV

71.        They did not do it because I was here physically. They did not say, “Because He is not in the meeting today, there is no need.”

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GOD KNOWS ABOUT EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE [1]

I received a Message this morning. It is on the table. CROSS-CHECK YOUR FOUNDATION IN CHRIST. Have you distributed it? Okay.

2.           And I am happy God used no other person but Pastor Thomas Eze. I have not opened it. I do not know the day he preached it. I do not know if I was here or if I was away. Whatever might be the content, I love the title; CROSS-CHECK YOUR FOUNDATION IN CHRIST.

3.           Let it not be that you are drowning and we think that you are swimming. It will take someone that can swim to know that you are drowning. Amen.

4.           So I want to use the same title in another form. Thank God it did not come out at a better day than now. I will want you to marry your Bible again, for that is the easiest language you will understand. Marry your Bible before Me. Good readers in front, with almost all the translation. I can pick any translation I want.

5.           Let’s bow down our heads.

PRAYER

6.           Our dear heavenly father, right from the inside of our heart we make one plea help all of us to bear the wondrous truth out of thy word for your name sake.

7.           Open your eyes.

8.           Turn with Me to the book of Hebrews chapter 4 from verse 12. I want everybody to be fast in turning the Scriptures. Amplified, Living Bible, New International Version.

9.           ^[12]For WHATEVER GOD SAYS TO US is full of living power: … Did he say what God says to the people out there? WHATEVER GOD SAYS TO US. So, if you have been shifting the Word of God away from yourself, please, narrow it down to yourself.

10.        I am here with you fear not. I say I am here with you fear not. Remember I assured everybody, “God will never destroy you, but you will destroy yourself.”

11.        When you go contrary to God’s revealed Word which you know is truth and you cannot fault it, what are you doing? You are indirectly destroying yourself.

12.        When a snail that is in the fire is shedding so much water from its body, is the intention not to extinguish the fire? When the water in its body is exhausted, what will happen? It will die and the fire will still be raging.

13.        A SINNER HATES HIMSELF. AN UNREPENTANT HEART IS THE GREATEST ENEMY OF THE OWNER. AN UNREPENTANT HEART; A POWERFUL, OBSTINATE AND UNREPENTANT HEART IS THE GREATEST ENEMY OF THE OWNER.

14.        IT IS JUST LIKE A STUBBORN HEART. WHEN YOU ARE STUBBORN TO THE WORD OF GOD, YOU ARE STUBBORN TO THE HIGHEST ORDER. YOUR STUBBORNNESS HAS REACHED ITS PEAK WHERE THERE IS NO OTHER REMEDY THAN THE DESTRUCTION.

15.        CAN A MAN BE STUBBORN TO HIS MAKER? IF I TELL YOU THAT I AM STUBBORN TO A FAULT, IS IT A GOOD REMARK?

16.        Just like a Minister was calling Me, asking for My intervention, and I said, “On what? You are the one bringing the sorrows and pains to yourself and to your own family. I told you long time ago that your character had become everything but good. And you were rejoicing. You think that it’s a good remark.”

17.        IF I TELL YOU THAT YOUR CHARACTER IS TOO GOOD, I AM CALLING YOU THE WORST HUMAN BEING. IF YOUR CHARACTER HAS BEEN EVERYTHING BUT GOOD, WHAT DOES IT MEAN? YOU ARE EVIL. YOU ARE EVIL.

18.        Bro Iyke, I hope you are hearing Me this morning?

19.        A POWERFUL, OBSTINATE, STUBBORN, UNREPENTANT HEART IS THE GREATEST ENEMY TO ITS OWNER BECAUSE SOMEBODY OWNS IT. DOES THAT HEART NOT BELONG TO SOMEBODY?

20.        Are you not the owner of all the thoughts of your heart? Are you not the owner of all the desires of your heart?  Your ways, are you not the owner?

21.        Who will answer questions for them? Are you not the one. Who will receive the reward thereof? You! Who will receive the punishment thereof?

22.        You and those that are surrounding you, for there are people that are consolidating your unbelief by comforting you and telling you that all is well when you are perishing; telling you that it does not matter. Are you the only one that is doing it?

23.        A WISE MAN DOES NOT FOLLOW THE MAJORITY WHEN THEY ARE WRONG. AMEN.

24.        Hebrews 4 vs. 12, Living Bible. ^[12]For whatever God says to us is full of living power: … To every seed of God. But if you are not a seed of God, it makes no impact on you. You cannot even see the difference because you are regarding it as words of a mere man.

25.        UNTIL YOU RECOGNIZE IT AS THE WORD OF GOD, BELIEVE IT AS THE WORD OF GOD, IT CAN NEVER WORK EFFECTUALLY IN YOU.

26.        YOU CAN NEVER BEGIN TO BENEFIT FROM THE POWER THAT IS IN THE WORD WHICH IS THE POWER OF TRANSFORMATION AND THE POWER OF REGENERATION. THE POWER THAT MAKES A SINNER A SAINT IS IN THE WORD.

27.        But when you are trying to worship God mechanically, by using your own power and knowledge, doing it anyhow, you are doing more harm than good to yourself.

28.        And sooner than you think, you will be tired because your strength is not derived from the Word of God. Any strength you are deriving from your power or from your strength can never take you far. You cannot go far.

29.        Sooner or later, your nakedness would be made public, and you will be a public spectacle. And people will say, “Is this the nature of this person? We thought he is a reasonable human being? So this fellow is just ordinary excreta.”

30.        ^[12]For whatever God says to us is full of living power: it is sharper than the sharpest dagger, cutting swift and deep into our innermost thoughts and desires with all their parts, exposing us for what we really are.

31.        It does what? Exposing and sifting us; presenting us to ourselves and to the world for what we really are. No mistake about it.

32.        Somebody by your side will not know what you are passing through when the Word had come to you, piercing your heart and touching your secret no-go-areas. 

33.        There is no human being that does not have his or her no-go-area. Nobody should touch this.  I do not play with it. Is it a lie?

34.        We will know where the devil is holding us captive today. You will know your own. Every other person will go home with his own, to show you that God is seeing you.

35.        ^[13]He knows about everyone, everywhere. Who knows about everyone and everywhere? Tell Me where you will hide and He will not see you. That which you want to hide away from God does not exist. Period!

36.        ANY THOUGHT AND IMAGINATION OF YOUR HEART WHICH YOU SAY GOD DOES NOT KNOW; GOD DOES NOT UNDERSTAND; IT DOES NOT EXIST.

37.        A MAN HAS NOT STARTED FOOLING HIMSELF UNTIL HE BEGINS TO HAVE IT IN HIS MIND THAT THERE IS SOMETHING HE IS DOING WHICH GOD DOES NOT KNOW. THAT IS WHERE DECEIT COMES FROM. SELF-DECEIT.

38.        You see why we do not mingle with people anyhow. This is because these people I am referring to are sitting down here. You call them your Brothers. You say, “Shalom! Remain blessed!” And they will reply, “Remain blessed” and embrace you. But they are not with you.

39.        The prophet Mohammed said in the fellowship they are believers, but when they go out, they mingle with their own group of people; and they begin to jest, “I was saying “Amen” and “Alleluia!” to confuse them into believing that I am with them when am not with them. Who can believe this nonsense? I know why am still there.”

40.        And really he knows why he is still here. It is not for God; It is not for eternal life, but you feel that God does not know that he is not with us.

41.        ¹³And when it is said to them (hypocrites): “Believe as the people (followers of Muhammad Peace be upon him, Al-Ansârand Al-Muhajirûn) have believed,” THEY SAY: “SHALL WE BELIEVE AS THE FOOLS HAVE BELIEVED?” Verily, they are the fools, but they know not.

42.        ¹⁴AND WHEN THEY MEET THOSE WHO BELIEVE, THEY SAY: “WE BELIEVE,” BUT WHEN THEY ARE ALONE WITH THEIR SHAYÂTIN (DEVILS — POLYTHEISTS, HYPOCRITES, ETC.), THEY SAY: “TRULY, WE ARE WITH YOU; VERILY, WE WERE BUT MOCKING.”

43.        You will know it at the end when you will hear, “Depart from Me, for I know you from the very beginning that you never believed in Me, talk less of doing a good thing.”

44.        God delights Himself in the upright and in the people that have integrity to protect. If you have integrity to protect, you can never be an enemy of God. You will always delight yourself in doing what is right at all times so that you will live a blameless life before God and before man; having a conscience void of offence before God and before man, that you may have the boldness to appear before THE SON OF MAN in the end.

45.        This is because sin makes the sinner to lose boldness. A sinner delights in taking the longest route. A sinner makes journey through life very long.

46.        It is like one who wants to use shortcut. EVERY SHORTCUT PROLONGS YOUR JOURNEY.

47.        See what I mean. Assuming you committed a crime at G.T.C. gate, and you are known for that crime, you do not want to be arrested. You do not want to be seen. But you must come to G.T.C compound.

48.        The truth is this: The shortest cut into the compound means crossing the gate. But instead of crossing the gate, you now go to Saint Charles. From Saint Charles to G.R.A.

49.        From G.R.A., you will climb the fence because you are avoiding the place where you committed iniquity. You do not want to be seen in that area, but what you are looking for is there. It will now lead you into taking longer a path. Brethren, is it true?

50.        A SINNER IS ALWAYS LIVING IN FEAR BECAUSE HE KNOWS THE TRUTH, BUT HE DOES NOT WANT TO OBEY THE TRUTH.

51.        It is just like a criminal. When he hears a challenging command, he remains silent. If a dog barks, he will quietly go back, lest people will flash the torchlight and see the man.

52.        How can you have the boldness to appear before God’s throne when you know that your deeds are evil? And God is of a purer eyes than to behold iniquity.

53.        HE LOVES ONE WITH UPRIGHT HEART. HE DELIGHTS HIMSELF IN THE UPRIGHT. HATES INIQUITY WILL PERFECT HATRED.

54.        LET ME TELL YOU. IF YOU DELIGHT YOURSELF IN INIQUITY, YOU ARE GOD’S GREATEST ENEMY. AND GOD WILL HATE YOU WITH PERFECT HATRED.

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GOD KNOWS ABOUT EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE [2]

e knows about everyone, everywhere. … No place to hide. Everything about us is bare and wide open to the all-seeing eyes of our living God; … Amen!

2.           Everything means everything. No minus. No plus. You see why nobody is reporting any of us to God. We are reporting ourselves every minute of the day, for the eyes of God runneth to and fro all over the earth beholding both the good and evil that is been perpetrated here on Earth.

3.           That is why He is The Perfect Judge. He judges righteously without respect of person, for God cannot accuse a people falsely.

4.           A dog does not bark in vain. If it did not see anybody, it heard the voice of a human being. If it did not hear the voice of a human being, it saw a shadow. If it did not see a shadow. It certainly saw something which the human eyes may not have seen.

5.           Do bees that has clustered in the house sting everybody that passes by? The one who gets stung by these bees is guilty of something.

6.           How can everybody be passing by the door, and the dog will be lying there quiet? But when it was your turn to pass, the dog sprang up and held your cloth, denying you passage.

7.           Even in an attempt to pacify the dog, it is even making greater efforts to strip you down to your shorts and pants. Were you the only person that passed through that door? Won’t you ask yourself a question?

8.           In the very days of old, God used cluster of bees to secure households. Nobody intentionally brings the cluster into his house, but when you come in, you will see it there around the ceiling. Everybody will be passing there, including the owner, but nobody will stung by the bees.

9.           But if you attempt coming into that household with evil intention[s] or come with poison, the bees will be stinging you in turns. Continuously until you fall to the ground.

10.        Each will sting and go back to the cluster in that manner until you run away. Even in your calamity with the bees, other people will still be passing that same area where they clustered without any hurt from the bees.

11.        The bees can keep on stinging an individual until the fellow starts confessing all the evils he had done, even losing grip of that which he is holding in his hand.

12.        He [God]is still doing it till today.

13.        Were you not the one that removed the cluster in My house? Did I instruct you to remove it? It is because you are not upright, lest it stings you and your children to death.

14.        But I saw the cluster and left it for them to be reproducing, but you went and exterminated all of them. Are you greater than the Person that kept it there for Me?

15.        GOD SECURES THE RIGHTEOUS WHEREVER HE OR SHE MIGHT BE. GOD SECURES THE RIGHTEOUS WITH A LOT OF THINGS.

16.        God can keep scorpion[s] in My house, but it will not sting the people in My house. But when you come into My house, you will get a scorpion sting.

17.        He knows where we are and what we are doing everywhere. So, you that are trying to deceive God, you are deceiving yourself. Conceal that thing to everybody; hide it away from all of us, but God knows A to Z.

18.        If you do not believe it, it can never make the Word of God of non-effect. You will believe it at the end, where you will say, “If I had known.”

19.        Everything about us is bare and wide open to the all-seeing eyes of our living God;… To the all-seeing eyes, everything is wide open. Do not think you are deceiving God. You are merely deceiving yourself. I will give it a title.

20.        … nothing can be hidden from him to whom we must explain all that we have done. LB

21.        So there is Somebody we will explain to. Do you believe it? When This Man walked in here, how many saw Him. If he never said, “Photograph Me”, you would not have believed that He is the One.

22.        Let us be very careful. Everything is wide open and very plain to The Man we are having dealings with, to Whom we will give explanation for everything we are doing.

23.        Whether somebody is there with us or nobody, we must give the explanation to Him. And He gave you a Message, THERE IS NO REASONABLE EXCUSE BEFORE GOD, for whatever excuse you want to give is part of your problem.

24.        What He wants to see is a believing heart or unbelieving heart; upright heart or corrupt heart. A HEART THAT FINDS IT DIFFICULT TO OBEY GOD MUST BE CORRUPT.A CORRUPT HEART CAN NEVER RETAIN THE TRUTH. IT CAN NEVER ACT RIGHT.

25.        It is like a corrupt computer; a corrupt hard disk. It may not erase all the information but those that are there might be haphazardly placed, while some might be hidden away where you can never trace it with any file. One day you may not repair the system. All will re-appear.

26.        ^[14]But Jesus the Son of God is our great High Priest who has gone to heaven itself to help us; therefore let us never stop trusting him. ^[15]This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses since he had the same temptations we do, though he never once gave way to them and sinned.LB

27.        Hebrews 4:12 – 13, Amplified version of the Bible.  ^[12]For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [MAKING IT ACTIVE, OPERATIVE, ENERGIZING, AND EFFECTIVE]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of THE DEEPEST PARTS OF OUR NATURE], EXPOSING AND SIFTING and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart. You will see yourself just as you are.

28.        ^[13]And not a creature exists… Even the ants on the ground. Since he knows the number of hair on your head. He can count the number of hair on your head. He knows the number of grains of sand on the ocean shore. Is he not worthy to be feared?

29.        ^[13]And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but ALL THINGS ARE OPEN AND EXPOSED, NAKED AND DEFENSELESS TO THE EYES OF HIM WITH WHOM WE HAVE TO DO”

30.        You are defenseless. So, if you are building up a defense instead of obeying, get ready. One of our evils is that instead of obeying God, we are easily constructing a defense. We are looking for answer[s]. We are looking for what to say. Is God interested? Will you say what others have not said? You know, a fool thinks that he is wiser than everybody, including God.

31.        When you talk to him, he will disagree with you, telling you, “You do not understand. You would not understand.” So, you are the only one that understands. You are the only one that is wise.

32.        Now, pay attention. I want to give it a name or a topic before we begin to consider. If I give it this name, I will trace it to the library. I promised to reproduce this Message, but till now, we have not seen it in the library. And many were not here when I handled it. That is the Genesis of your problem[s].

33.        What is that thing? THE CONFLICT IN A MAN’S HEART AND ITS SOLUTION.  THE CONFLICT IN A MAN’S HEART AND ITS SOLUTION.

34.        I KNOW GOD FOR ONE THING. HE IDENTIFIES THE CAUSE OF EVERY SICKNESS AND PROFFERS THE REMEDY.

35.        For a doctor to succeed in the medical practice, he must have a very good lab technician who has the capacity to diagnose ailments very well, so as to give him the results as a guide. That is one.

36.        He [the doctor] must have a dependable pharmacist who will give him quality, tested drugs that can handle the ailment. I hope you are getting where I am heading to?

37.        Every sickness has a symptom. There are too many sicknesses that have similar symptoms, but they are different one to another.

38.        So do not just say it is malaria because you are having headache; you are having a fever or you are vomiting, for there are other things with the same symptoms other than malaria.

39.        Neither as a woman do you conclude that you are pregnant. You may not be pregnant. There are many things that are accompanied by severe headache, severe fever, and severe discomfort including nausea and vomiting.

40.        You see why diagnosis is very   essential, so that you know what you are treating.

41.        ANY SICKNESS WITHOUT A CAUSE DOESN’T EXIST.WHERE THERE IS CAUSATIVE, THE REMEDY IS THERE, FOR EVERY PROBLEM CONTAINS THE SOLUTION. SIT DOWN AND LOOK INTO THE PROBLEM, FOR THE SEED OF ITS SOLUTION IS THERE.

42.        I DO NOT CARE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT IT, BUT YOUR APPROACH IS MAKING IT VERY DIFFICULT. DEVELOP THE RIGHT APPROACH BECAUSE I AM COMING TO SPIRITUAL MATTERS RIGHT NOW.

43.        THERE IS NO HUMAN BEING THAT IS NOT HAVING CONFLICT IN HIS HEART. AND BELIEVE IT IF YOU LIKE; MAN IS THE ONLY ANIMAL GOD CREATED IN THIS WORLD THAT IS CAPABLE OF MORAL CONFLICT. AND MAN IS THE ONLY ANIMAL HERE ON EARTH THAT IS GIVEN THE POWER OF MORAL CONQUEST. THINK ABOUT IT.

44.        MAN IS THE ONLY ANIMAL THAT IS CONSCIOUS OF THE LIFE HE LIVES. NO OTHER ANIMAL IS CONSCIOUS OF SUCH LIFE. NO ANIMAL LIVES THE LIFE TO PLEASE GOD.

45.        NO ANIMAL LIVES THE LIFE TO OFFEND GOD, FOR ANIMALS DO NOT KNOW THAT GOD EXISTS. NO ANIMAL HAS THE MORAL TO PROTECT. NO ANIMAL HAS THE INTEGRITY OR REPUTATION TO PROTECT.

46.        IF ANIMALS ARE DECLARED SINFUL, THEY ARE DECLARED SINFUL AS A RESULT OF HUMAN INIQUITY. MAN IS THE ONLY ANIMAL THAT IS SUBJECT TO MORAL CONFLICT AND MORAL CONQUEST.

47.        For that reason, I want to say, “Whether you like it or not, there must be a time in your life when you will be conflicting between many options. Too many opinions!

48.        You will be confronted with the power you cannot grapple with; Power you cannot even suppress. Power you cannot even contain. It is by far greater than your morality.

49.        WHEN THE PENCHANT FOR EVIL SOARS ABOVE YOUR CONTROL, THAT MEANS, THE ACCUMULATION OF EVIL IN YOUR BRAIN, IN YOUR THOUGHTS AND IN YOUR HEART HAS BY FAR OUTWEIGHED THE DESIRE OF UPRIGHT LIVING.

50.        WHAT IS THE RESULT? LET ME GO BACK TO THE WORD. I DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE REASONS, BUT I AM ONLY HERE TO IDENTIFY, TO DIAGNOSE AND TO HEAL. THAT’S THE REASON WHY THE SON OF MAN IS MADE MANIFEST: TO DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL.

51.        But we must identify it to know where He is coming from; and to know why He is operating from there.