GOD IS AT HOME WITH HIS CHILDREN Compiled by Evangelist Anayo Chukwubuikem Household of God Enugu On 26/2/2021. & DO NOT WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD EXCEPT WHERE HE HAS CHOSEN TO PLACE HIS NAME Preached on 5th March 2021 By Bishop Joe Ukpong Household of God at Akwa Ibom Authorized and Approved by Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN The Great Madhi
I AM YOUR “MERCY SEAT.” But I know that one day, I will change position and sit on the “Judgment Seat.” “HE” that has brought you so far is the same “One” you will meet at the end. You are not meeting any other person other than “HE” that is with you now. Believe it if you can…
FORGIVENESS; Preached on Sunday 6th January 2008 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 3
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GOD IS PERFECT IN HIS WISDOM
Since God created human beings, He dwelled among them and started revealing Himself to them through His words.
2. As human beings continued to increase and multiply in numbers, God started using different languages to talk to them in order to meet their needs.
3. There are many nations or countries in the world today. Every nation has its own languages and cultures. God communicates to every nation according to her languages, cultures or life styles, using their fellow kinsman or brother as God over them.
4. “The people of God shall be taught of God and shall have Him in person for their teacher.”(John 6:45 AMP) As the children of God are scattered all over the world, the same way God speaks to them using their local languages and dialects.
5. True children of God do not have problem understanding God’s message and God does not have difficulty introducing Himself to them.
6. The book of John chapter 10, verses 27 and 28. “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”
7. People who have difficulties understanding God’s messages are strangers. God is always at home with His true children.
8. THE KINSMAN REDEEMER preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Son of Man on 15/5/2011, at the Household of God Onitsha, page 73, verses 28 to 31. “You must have a kinsman redeemer.
9. In all the Church ages, no stranger was sent to a particular age. All messengers were kinsmen in every age.
10. When America had their Pentecost, God used an American messenger. Am I making sense?
11. Glory be to God! I have personally decided to Nigerianize this Faith as a sure proof that God is a Nigerian.
12. To the Igbo race, I have Igbonized it to the point that it has become a stumbling block to all that are in Nigeria or Igbo land, holding Americanized Faith.
13. For Americanized Faith or Romanized Faith is opposed to Nigerianized Faith.
14. God must adopt the culture of the people where He appears. If God appears in America, He must adopt the culture of America. There is no way God will appear in Igbo land without drinking palm wine, drink Ogogoro (dry gin).”
15. God is perfect in wisdom. He does not want language to be a barrier in spreading the gospel. That is why when He appears to a people, He uses their town’s man or kinsman, a native of the land who is conversant with their cultures and languages as Lord over them.
16. If God uses a stranger to save His people, they will have cogent reasons why they should not believe Him because of language barriers and cultural differences.
17. THE REVELATION OF WHO GOD IS GOES TO THE ELECTS ONLY, preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Son of Man on 10/12/2000, page 151, verses 41, 50-60. “Now, I want you to understand that God is revealed.
18. God is not coming down from anywhere. God is always born among human beings, grow up in the midst of human beings. Yet, it does not stop Him from being what He is.
19. However, He reveals Himself to those people He wants to save. To the rest, they will not know Him.
20. Without revelation, you can slap God. Without revelation, you can sneer at God. Without revelation from the Almighty, you can also be guilty the same way the people of Israel, Jews, are guilty today; calling your own God devil and all manner of names, all to your own destruction.
21. That is why when He came down, He told us to padlock our lips. He said, “Do not be quick in calling anything God or devil, time will vindicate all things. Time will vindicate all things. As many as were quick to open their mouths, are looking for a way to come back. Now, it has become late.
22. Remember, I am answering question. That God has never revealed himself to the whole world. He is only going to reveal himself to the whole world in His wrath.
23. One day He has reserved to judge the whole world in righteousness. It is that day that the whole world will feel the wrath of His anger. Until then, God will continue to reveal Himself to His chosen ones.
24. St. John chapter 4 verse 19-29. Note it down. There you see the Samaritan woman patiently listening to Jesus Christ. And Jesus the Christ wanting to reveal Himself to her, did it wisely.
25. The woman called Him a prophet, called Him the very Christ. Rushed into the village and invited people.
26. When you see scriptures fulfilling, the best thing to do is to glorify God. I am the last sign to this generation.
27. St Luke 11 verse 30, KJV, “For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall The Son of Man be to this generation.”
28. As Jonah was a sign to the people of Nineveh, so shall -future tense – The Son of Man be the last sign to this generation. When you shall see The Son of Man coming with power and great glory, coming in a cloud, gird up your loins, be ready; your redemption draweth near.
29. You see no other sign than the catching away of the saints. He that will catch away the saints is here with them.
30. Let not your heart be troubled, I go to prepare a place for you, after which I will come back again and take you to myself that wherever I am, there you will be.
31. Comfort one another with these words. If He did not come to take us, we will perish. For we do not know the way. Where He went to, we do not know. We do not know the way to get there.
32. However, it behoves on Him to come back. If we say that God has given us a perfect guide, we are right.
Once you deny that Christ is a human being, you have denied the Deity, for whosoever that must come to Him, must believe that He is and that He exists.
NOW I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN OF GOD; Teaching on Sunday 28th February, 1999; Pg. 123
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GOD HAS COME TO GUIDE US INTO HIS KINGDOM
The truth is that God Himself has come to guide us into His kingdom. It will take God to guide us to the prepared place for us.
2. We do not know where He prepared it, He alone knows it. He has come to take us. Surely, we have to co-operate. If we fail to cooperate, it then means we do not want to get there.
3. Do you know how long it has taken to prepare the place? He is serious with the promise. I will be there one of these days with as many as will believe me because I know I am tired of staying.
4. I know I have even overstayed. I know that. You equally know that I have overstayed.”
5. God has revealed Himself to us in these last days as a black man in the person of Apostle Peter Odoemena, the very Son of Man, yet many do not know about it.
6. The man Jesus was a Jew born in Bethlehem, Judea. He was the true God made manifest in His day but many of his people did not receive Him as God except very few.
7. “He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
8. But as many as received Him, to them He gave power to become sons of God, even to them that believe on His name.” (John 1:10-12, KJV)
9. The Son of Man is here with us as the very Christ of this Age yet many Nigerians are lavishing their money going for pilgrimage to Rome, Mecca and Jerusalem in search of foreign and imaginary gods.
10. True children of God, the elects recognize and receive God in their day irrespective of the vessel He is tabernacling in their day.
11. Psalm 145:18-20, AMP. “The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him sincerely and in truth.
12. He will fulfill the desires of those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him: He also will hear their cry and save them. The Lord preserves all those who love Him, but all the wicked will he destroy.”
13. The primary responsibility of every true child of God is to recognize who God is in his/her day, walks close to Him, allows God to be his or her guide and obeys every word that proceeds from the mouth of God that is revealed in his/her day.
14. Go to the message THE YEAR OF MY REDEEMED IS COME, preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Son of Man, on 10/01/1999, page 27, verses 2-12.
15. “There is a popular scripture you know very well and that is St. Luke 17 where Jesus the Christ said, “As it was in the days of Noah, as it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah (Lot’s day), people were eating and drinking, wedding and given unto marriage, then the Lord struck, they never noticed it.”
16. If you watch the way this message has been going round, the way we are receiving it, if we are not careful, we will fulfill that scripture: eating and drinking, making merriments, marrying and being given unto marriage; we think we are no longer expecting rapture (translation of our mortal body) again; many are no longer serious about the rapturing of the saints.
17. I do not believe the Lord will rapture you when you are living anyhow, I do not believe that. Note it, God is not the author of confusion.
18. God is going to rapture a Church that is sober, a Church that is sensible in everything.
19. However, if you want to continue in your reckless behavior all in the name of grace, well, go ahead, in the end you will say “had I known.” After all, there is a master piece before us.
20. Do you know why I blame many of you? I blame you because you have not for one day sat down to enquire about the Faith you are in and how this Faith came down. There is one (the Almighty) providing all you are enjoying. You never in your house got it, it was not brought to you on the way, hence; if you are wise enough, all you have to do is to stay behind the guide who is the masterpiece.
21. The instruction says: “Let us walk close to the Guide.” I think there is wisdom in walking close to the Guide. Nevertheless, when you start to interpret grace in your own way; surely, you overtake the Holy Spirit and get lost.
22. Note, I believe in ETERNAL SECURITY to the extent that is revealed to me. I do not know the extent that it was revealed to you.
23. The extent it was revealed to me showed me that people’s names will be blotted out in the end from the book of life.
24. Talk of their names being there in the book of life, sure, their names are there but in the end it will be blotted out. Is there any scripture for that? Can we back it up with the scriptures?
25. Moses pleaded for his people in the wilderness and said “Take my life in their place.” Then God said, “Surely, I will not do that. But whoever that continues to sin against me, him shall I blot his name from the book of life.
26. ” Thus, He that wrote your name has the right to blot it out. In other words, if you do not want your name to be blotted out in the end, line up with the guide.
27. You are not left without a shepherd. There is one, who is watching over you. If He is shouting and shouting, and shouting, find out why he is shouting. If you harden your heart and close your ears, you are perishing.
28. If you enjoy grace in the flesh, you get lost at the end. That day I will say, “I told you but you did not take my word seriously.”
29. I want to see the Church in a sober mood this year. We have entertained ourselves enough. I think we are tired of that entertainment. If you are not tired of that entertainment, you had better go to the Grace of God Church.
30. Let us bend down and prepare ourselves for what is ahead of us. Anything can happen anytime from now.”
31. We should trust God completely for Him to save us. We should not doubt Him, no matter the situation for He loves us and knows more than us. Without Him, we can do nothing.
32. We should obey him, cooperate with him and pattern after His footsteps so that His divine purpose for us will be achieved.
33. THE SEPARATING LINE BETWEEN GOD AND MAN, preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Son of Man on 26/11/2015, Pg. 41, verses 8-10.
34. “What is more, my whole duty is to espouse you to the word of God, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: for I am the word made flesh. The whole aim is to make you be like I am, so that we can have sweet and divine fellowship – an inseparable fellowship.
35. The moment you attain my nature, that is all. Besides, it’s not something you can begin to work out. Nobody can tutor it into anybody. It is a matter of hearing the word, understanding and acting; that is all. When you hear, understand and then refuse to act, it makes you a hypocrite; you decree yourself out of the life that Christ gives. Thus, understand these three key things for your own good: HEARING THE WORD, UNDERSTANDING AND ACTING.”
36. As soldiers of Christ, we are expected to obey every command from the leader or the Guide. The Guide being an experienced soldier; knows when we should move forward or go backward. He knows when we should stand erect or bend down.
37. If the Guide sees danger ahead and commands you to bend or lie down and you decide to stand erect because you want to prove stubborn to his instruction; your life is in danger.
38. On coming bullets from opposing side may even land on your chest or fore head and you get wounded.
39. In the message THE SALVATION LINK FOR YOUR AGE HAS BEEN REVEALED, preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Son of Man on 6/5/2012. Pg. 22, verses 17-21, 27-30. “I have been telling you that nobody has been to Heaven except He that came down from Heaven. Nobody knows the way except He that came down. He said, “I am going away, I am coming back to take you to myself, for wherever I am there you will be.”
40. Thus, wherever the revealed Christ is, that is where His people, the saved, the redeemed of all the ages shall be.
41. They call Him ‘The Ancient of Days’, He that existed when the world was without form. What form was He existing? The Pillar of Cloud, The Pillar of Fire, The Original Nature.
42. William Braham said, “Any group that holds the word of God unadulterated, the Almighty God Himself must come and vindicate it with His supernatural presence.”
43. The presence of God in all the ages! He said it is that little group that will go for Rapture. It is that little group that will go for Rapture.
44. Go back to the message titled ‘Rapture’ preached by William Branham. Rapture is not for everybody, but he said it is for that little group out there in the wilderness set out; believing His word.
45. In addition, from that little group in the wilderness, God will make a quick move that will encircle the whole Earth.
46. Any group the Lord is leading is a victorious group. Any individual the Lord is leading must be a victorious individual. Allow the Lord to lead you and victory is completely sure.
47. But where He is not leading, do not make a move for disaster awaits you. The Lord has appeared to lead us Home. If you believe it say Amen. You have seen Him that has given us the victory.
48. That is why the book of Jeremiah the prophet said, “To Him belongeth all the praise, honour, victory, dominion, majesty forever more.” Thus victory belongeth to the Lord.
49. Who has given us the victory? God! The same way He gave it to our fathers in the time of old. What He did in the time past is what He is repeating in our day.
50. Who can believe our report? To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? It was not try your luck; the people of God do not practice “try your luck”. They are sure and certain. If they are not sure and certain they make no move.”
51. The Son of Man has come as promised in the scriptures. He is here in our midst to fulfill all righteousness. He has proved to the whole world that He is the revealed Christ of this generation that is about to wind up.
52. He has manifested the Rainbow, the Thick cloud, the Brightness of God’s presence, the Fullness of Godhead including God’s Original Body. And these supernatural qualities are revealing only but Christ our Passover.
Declare no one lost until THE SON OF MAN has declared the person lost, for you might be in the lost or region of the lost and you do not know. Only THE SON OF MAN knows those that are with Him and those that are now in the region of the lost. He is now enduring them with much patience, knowing that He is going to destroy them. They will never smell Paradise, for the parameter for entering Paradise and dwelling with Him eternally has been revealed
Sad News preached on 19th July, 2020; page 48:37-38
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I AM THE FINAL SIGNATURE
From the message: WE STUMBLE OVER THE SIMPLICITY OF GOD, preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Son of Man on 9/2/2014, page 22 verses 15, 21-27.
2. “Make sure at all times – no matter how you are feeling upset – that your heart is right with God, washed whiter than snow so that your sacrifices will be made acceptable in the sight of God which you offer regularly through The Son of Man.
3. The only approved channel! I am the sole signatory to all tickets that will enter Heaven.
4. Let me tell you, I am not only a chief passport officer; I am the director general of that passport officer. You call it Heavenly passport officer which is the Bridal Faith.
5. When you are in the Bridal Faith, you are in your final passport office where you will be issued with your visa and everything.
6. I am the sole ambassador here representing. My signature is final! If my signature is not there, you will be returned; you have missed the way!
7. Route your prayers, route your everything, your correspondences through the appropriate channel. It must surely receive attention. But where you route it wrongly, it will end in the waste paper basket. Finish!
8. No file for it because you did not route it very well. Is it not scriptural? Have you not been reading it here that God said that The Son of Man is the only signatory who will append His signature?
9. Make your plea, submit it through the appropriate channel, you must be heard, provided your heart is right. Make sure at all times, your heart is right with God and with your fellow man. Finish!
10. Do not listen to what they are talking. Do not pay attention to the way they are treating you. It is normal. It is normal! Every normal human being must behave that way.
11. You are not finding it easy with them is because you are an abnormal human being. Everything you are doing in their sight is abnormal.
12. Their own is abnormal to you because it does not sink well with the right way of living approved of God for all His people.”
13. The Son of Man is the last hope of mankind as far as Eternal Life is concerned. He is the Almighty God ‘enmorphe’, making His last appearance on earth before the end of all things. The Almighty God revealing Himself in our midst is a great privilege and opportunity we cannot miss. May the Almighty God give us the wisdom and understanding to cooperate with Him and do those things expected of us for our own benefits.
14. From the message: TIME FOR FINAL SELECTION, preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Son of Man, on 28/11/2012, page 80 verses 34,41-43,46,75. “After seeing all the ways God displayed His attributes showing us His personality in so many ways, you still harden your heart to behave the way you want, that goes to prove that you have no part in Him for the fear of the Lord is not in you
15. -Something the heathens will see and shiver with fear and amazement. Anyone that is happy when God corrects him or her is only a true elect, but all that are not His seeds are filled with anger, filled with wrath and demonstration. (Epistle 15, SHOULD A MAN STRIFE WITH HIS MAKER).
16. “Behold happy is the man the Lord corrects, therefore, despise not the chastening of the Lord Almighty for He maketh sore and bindeth up the woundeth and his arms healeth the wounds finish!
17. Who can understand this passage? Only true elects, but to the non-elects, it cannot be understood. How enviable is the man whom God corrects. At least by this, God knows that I am around.
18. How enviable, can you imagine that it is something to be envied? To be corrected goes to prove that God knows you are around.
19. How enviable, what others did and God winked at, not caring, that is what I did and He clamped down on me.
20. What did we read from the first message titled “Son of Man concludes the News?” That God will not drop us, that we will drop ourselves. That God will not forsake us, that we will forsake ourselves. God will not destroy us, that we will destroy ourselves.
21. God said that He will not erase our names from the book of life but we will erase our names from the book of life with our own hands.
22. You see where the problem lies. That majority in this Faith do not know why we are in this most Holy Faith and that is why The Son of Man is making a final selection in the bride through this second camp meeting to make sure nobody accuses Him falsely.”
23. Whatever The Son of Man does is perfect and for our own good but man by nature hates himself, hates good things and only welcomes what will destroy him.
24. The message of The Son of Man teaches us to be humble, to accept correction and to amend our ways so as to live right with Him. Instead, we prefer to be in darkness, unyielding, arrogant, rebellious, stubborn, covetous, boastful, ungrateful, deceitful and hateful.
25. Nobody should blame The Son of Man for what is happening in many families in our midst nowadays. We are reaping what we have sown.
26. It is not the will of God that any of us should perish, that is why He has revealed Himself to us, handed down many messages to us, hoping that one day we will discover our faults and come back to accept the truth we have rejected.
27. In the message TOTALITY OF GODHEAD IS IN THE BRIDE, preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Son of Man on 5/8/2012, page 127, verses 52 -54. “He that started the good works is still with us, consolidating it more and more in the hearts of those that believe, not unbelievers among us.
28. Or those whose names have been deleted completely!
29. If your name is deleted, The Son of Man is not the one that deleted it, you instructed The Son of Man to delete it. You told The Son of Man that you are tired. He heard your voice, He reasoned with you before he deleted it.
30. The Son of Man can never delete your name without inviting your attention. It is impossible. He must invite your attention in one way or the other, reason with you, with your go ahead order, He will strike the name out.
31. Even before your eyes, He will show you the person that is taking over.”
32. Eternal life is a gift from God. A gift is not yet a gift until it is accepted. If somebody proves to God that he does not need eternal life through his actions and manifestations of unbelief, God will collect His gift and give it to the person that is seriously in need of it.
33. It is not everybody that values free gift. Free gift from God is only received by those who value it.
34. In the same message, page 166, verses 26-28, 32-37. “Anything God said that has not come to pass, the time that is attached to it has not come because God’s prophecies are tied to time. Follow the man God has placed before us.
35. How do you follow Him? By being obedient to His teachings and doctrines! To His instructions, to His conduct which His has given to us.
36. If He called you privately and told you what is wrong in you, it is just to change your life. You accept it to prove that you are a child of God; you must accept every instruction given to you from God.
37. This is a Faith that can shoot a man up over night, if the person comes in with all his heart and boldly follow the message – not following the message half-heartedly.
38. If you follow the message like Caleb, with your whole heart, within forty-eight hours, you will notice the type of growth that will take place in your godly life.
39. If you are not growing, that goes to show that you are like the plant called cactus. Cactus is a dangerous flower.
40. We should examine our spiritual life, God has told us that this is not the time to re-examine the Faith; this is the time we should re-examine our life to know if our life is in consonance with the Faith.
41. For the Faith is perfect, the Faith is pure, it is not contaminated.
42. The problem is with the people that believe the Faith or that said that they believe the Faith. They are the ones that are muddling everything in their hearts with the faith.
The last hurdle where we are now and we will not stay long there. Look at it. Look at it. You cannot come here until this one is settled. WHAT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT? IT IS THE CONCENTRATION OF THE WORD OF GOD IN YOU. WHEN THE WORD OF GOD IS DWELLING IN YOU RICHLY IN ALL WISDOM, IT WILL HELP YOU TO BEGIN TO DISCERN THAT WHICH IS PROPER, THAT WHICH IS GOOD, THAT WHICH IS NOBLE, THAT WHICH IS THE ACCEPTABLE WILL OF GOD.
Is Your Ticket Valid & Okayed Vol.2 Preached on 22nd Sept. 2020; page 114:9-10
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GOD WILL COME TO YOU THROUGH YOUR THOUGHTS
There is one of our messages that says that God will come to you through your thoughts, the same way Satan will come to you through your thoughts.
2. And the one you yield yourself to automatically will control you. Then what do you say? What is your thought? How do you meditate? How do you ponder over the messages you have received? Think twice, meditate over it.
3. When you do not give yourself to meditation over these messages, how can God come into you? Just like what God was telling us concerning conscious estate and unconscious estate. If you are not conscious of these messages, there is no way it can be transmitted in your subconscious mind.
4. It is what you gather in your consciousness level that will refine you and enter into your subconscious mind. That is what will see you through.
5. But if you are neglecting it, you do not take it seriously; the same attitude is what you will carry into your subconsciousness.”
6. Practice makes perfect. If you keep on practicing evil, before you know It, you will perfect in evil behavior. The same way, if you keep on practicing good things, before you know it, you will perfect in good deeds.
7. Nobody is born a prostitute or an armed robber but when you continue to associate with people with such evil habits, have them as your friends, enjoy their company without rebuking them of their evil practices; as time goes on, you will master evil styles and desire to behave like them.
8. If you happen to be in a family where everybody delights in the things of God and meditates on the word of God; as time goes on, you will desire to be like them. When you practice it for a long time without stopping it, you will master it. One day, you will even see yourself in a dream preaching the word of God.
9. It is what you practice at the conscious level that you will carry into the subconscious level. There is no way you can be upright and in right standing with God at the conscious level and then you begin to see yourself as a hypocrite at the subconscious level (in a dream).
10. Whatever we do at the conscious level is truly reflected at the subconscious level and perfectly monitored by God spiritually at the subconscious level.
11. From the message: TAKE MY YOKE, preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Son of Man, on 9/9/2007, page 22, verses 6-8, 12-15, 50-53. “A stranger cannot be comfortable in another man’s family, for no place is better than your home.
12. That is why we believe what the bible says that it is only in Christ-the Anointed One, the messiah that all the children of God that are scattered all over the world are joined together.
13. That is why in Christ, there is no Hausa, no Niger Delta, no Yoruba, no Igbo, no Itsekiri, they are one. But take away Christ; you will see Nigeria and Biafra, Benue and Taraba or Taraba and Ijukon. You will see every kind of thing there. Am I making sense?
14. Hence, if you are not tired of living a wild life like the people in the world and something brought you into the Faith, you will not be comfortable in this Faith because the desire to continue in the wild life is still in you. In addition, you are not a child of God to begin with.
15. No matter how a goat struggles to pattern after a sheep, it will not succeed. Even if a dog will be sleeping together with pig, the dog cannot metamorphose into a pig. They are two different species, so it is with every human being in the world.
16. You cannot worship God unless you are from God. You cannot be comfortable with God; you cannot be at peace with God, unless from the very beginning of your life, you were from God.
17. Whatever a snake produces must be a snake; whatever a dog produces must be a dog. Whatever a devil produces must be a devil. Whatever God produces must be God.
18. I am still hammering on something. A child of God does not struggle to obey God. I want to give you a natural illustration.
19. If I, as a shepherd, should ask my sheep that I will collect wool from her tomorrow, will the sheep be panicking? Will the sheep be struggling to produce wool so that I will collect wool from her tomorrow? Will the sheep be running up and down to enable it produce wool? The answer is NO.
20. Wool is the nature of sheep. Whether alive or dead, wool is there. If you see anybody that is struggling to obey any of our messages, that person is a stranger in the Household of God.
21. He is artificial; he is counterfeit, but he is trying to pattern after the original. He is a make-up.
22. These are the people that events reveal. Circumstances reveal them from time to time that they are not part of us, that they are those mixed multitude (the characteristics of every movement).”
23. There is no competition in destiny. Everybody must go the way he is ordained. All that belong to God must go back to God. All that belong to Satan must go back to Satan.
24. Every body’s nature must manifest one day for it cannot be hidden for too long.
25. Original and counterfeits cannot be packed together. By and by, there must be separation at the end and everybody will be parceled to his real home to meet his real brothers and sisters.
26. From the message THOSE THAT DO NOT HAVE OUR FAITH, preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Son of Man, page 14, verses 18-21, 24-25, 29-36. “People will come into fellowship and contact sensational spirits that will make them look like the children of God and even behave like the children of God and that will deceive them.
27. They will now think that they are children of God. What is more, once they are in fellowship, we must assign duties to them. We must also assign offices to them. They must hold offices in the body whether they like it or not.
28. Whether you are a man or a woman, you must do something in our midst because you cannot enjoy the worship of God’s people like that. For that reason, we will give you some work to do, yet you are operating outside.
29. With that position or office, the worship and the sensation, one thinks that he is inside. If a little thing happens to him, he will be regretting it: “If not this thing, nothing would have pulled me out.” Na lie! The fact of the matter is that he never entered. This is why God has narrowed down the number of people He has taken, for God cannot make a mistake in His election.
30. As many as are baptized into Christ, they are the only people that can put on Christ. It is not everybody that is baptized into Christ.
31. The bible said that those that were due to enter could not enter due to UNBELIEF although the Word was preached, but they were following God not knowing that they had not entered. An unbeliever is an unbeliever.
32. When a mad man discovers that he is mad, I tell you, his madness is gone. This is the problem in the Church.
33. I have settled down to diagnose it. The place we are entering is our Holy Ghost. That is our place of rest. It is our only Token.
34. Whoever that enters that place, he rests. He rests with blessed assurance. There will be no suffering again; no sickness, no pains. Nothing suggests to him that there is any danger around him.
35. But when many of you come into the fellowship of the saints, you feel that you are saved because of the anointing that is in me.
36. But when you go to your various homes and have an examination of your life in line with the Faith, you will see that you are even warring against the Faith in one way or the other, a sure sign that you have not entered. You are still outside.
37. This matter does not know who you are. It is for you. It is for your brother; it is for your sister. You have to make sure that you have entered.
38. Sometimes, I hear that somebody has backslidden. I just laugh. To begin with, that person has never come to God. Under anointing, the Holy Spirit concluded the whole matter.
39. He said, “These people that left us, from the very beginning, were never a part of us. They were following us, holding offices, preaching very hard, defending the Faith, but from the very beginning, they were never a part of us.
40. They finally left to confirm that what we were thinking about them was true.
41. I do not know whether you are getting what I am saying. If you are walking along a lonely path with your real brother, do you fear? If you are plying a part with your brother and you start entertaining some fear, I tell you, such a person is not your brother. If you are having dealings with somebody, whether the person is a man or a woman, and then, you begin to entertain fear, is that person your blood relation? Of course, not!
42. Furthermore, I will say that 95% of this Church is filled with people like that. Only 5% can stay with one another; move about with one another; do anything at all with one another without suspicion.
43. Moreover, the 5% if properly scrutinized may come down to 3%. If you like believe it; if you like throw it away. What I am saying is the truth.”
44. It is written in the scripture that God will show mercy on whom He will show mercy and He will have compassion on whom He will have compassion. That it is not he that struggles or labours more than others that counts but it is God’s unmerited favour that matters.
45. Yes! It is true but God will not show mercy to anybody that will come and trouble Him like Lucifer did before he was cast out of God’s presence.
46. God has good plans for the welfare and peace of his people. God has no evil plan for His people. God wants his people to be united in one mind, one spirit, one accord and doesn’t want anything that will bring division or quarrel among His people.
47. That is why the scripture says that we should mark those who cause division, who have another spirit and avoid them. Anybody who cannot be at peace with the true children of God, cannot be at peace with God.
48. If we say we are children of God and we cannot be at peace with one another; it then means we are making false claims. It is either some of us are real children and some are counterfeits or that all of us are counterfeits.
49. By and by, God must save somebody but He cannot save people anyhow. That is why there is need for selection. And this selection is done by God Himself according to His words or doctrines.
50. Anybody that is disobedient to God’s words or instructions has counted himself or herself out of the race.
51. This is the time we should pay strict attention to God’s instructions and strive sincerely to obey them.
52. WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL BE MY RIGHTEOUSNESS BEFORE GOD, part two, preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Son of Man on 3/5/1998, page 53, verses 5-11.“If God sends a man, certifying the scriptural office, He will send the same sign which He has always used to back up whosoever that has occupied that scriptural office.
53. His Shekinah presence must surely appear around that man, otherwise people will find it difficult to follow that man.
54. These Jews, they know how their God appeared to them. Are you getting what I am saying?
55. So nobody can fool a Jew. A Jew cannot follow anybody anyhow. You cannot just say you have seen God and expect a Jew to follow you. You must be prepared to convince a Jew that God is with you, and they know the way their God used to appear. If it fails to appear that way, they will tell you to get out. And we also being Jews, no man can fool us.
56. Now we are convinced beyond measure that really that He that is in our midst is not an impersonator. Can God back up an impersonator? Can God confirm something that is wrong? Can He take side with error?
57. That’s why when He came down, He opened the eyes of understanding of the Gentiles, and made their sacrifices acceptable unto Him, for before then, they were worshipping something that were no God.
58. Worshipping God that they do not know! Doing God a service outside His will.
59. God had to come to correct the error, for if God fails to step in, mankind is without hope. We will all get lost.
60. When they were convinced that God called Joshua, that God called Moses, they threw their weight behind these two men, to the point that they made a decree that every soul, which will not hear the prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
61. When they were convinced that they were not impersonators. That Moses never impersonated anything, because they have seen the supernatural thing that is impossible for Satan to impersonate.”
62. What the physical Jews saw and believed that God sent Moses was the presence of Pillar of Fire and The Pillar of Cloud around Moses.
63. Today, we the spiritual Jews have seen the Pillar of Fire, The pillar of Cloud, The Thick Darkness, The Godhead and The Original Body of The Supreme being made manifest in Apostle Peter Odoemena, the very Son of Man.
64. Jesus prophesied that He will come to wind up everything about the salvation of mankind.
65. After The Son of Man, cometh no other person for He is the very Almighty God in its fullness and He is manifesting the Seven radiations of the Elohim, The Supreme Deity!
66. Rejecting The Son of Man means Eternal Damnation or destruction and receiving Him means Eternal Life and Complete Salvation.
YOU MAY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY OF CHRIST COMING YOUR WAY. IT MAY BE YOUR LAST HOUR OF CHRIST’S VISITATION. THERE IS NOBODY HERE WHO CAN PREDICT HIS OWN LAST HOUR OF GOD’S VISITATION. THAT IS WHY WHEN YOU HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY, USE IT IMMEDIATELY. DELAY NOT, FOR DELAY CAN BE DANGEROUS. So, knowing fully well that God is ever upholding us, ever guiding His own and making sure that we do not fulfill those negative sides of the Scripture, what should we do? We should keep on trusting Him even unto death.
Trust God Even unto Death preached on 19th July, 2020; page 80:37-39
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GOD KNOWS THE SECRETS
ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO GOD’S PURPOSE?, preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Son of Man on 30/7/2008. Pg. 55 verses 15-19.
2. “For if you are not called according to God’s purpose, all things can never work out for good to you.
3. If you are called according to God’s plan, (1) You must love God. Loving God means obeying Him; loving God means hating what God hates and appreciating everything God appreciates. That is what it takes to love God.
4. Jesus told His disciples, “If you love me keep my words.” (John14:15). If you say you love God and you find it difficult to obey His word, do you love God?
5. If you are called according to God’s purpose, it then means you are in God’s Divine plan, and you are a child of God.
6. For that reason, you are not hidden from God. You are exposed before God. All your actions both in secret places and in the open places are naked before Him.
7. Hear me very well. All things work together for good to those that are called according to God’s purpose for God knows the secrets of the heart.”
8. Anybody that is called according to God’s purpose is always fitting into God’s plan. Everything God does favours him and he is a part of what God is doing.
9. Anybody that is not called according to God’s purpose, whatever God does provokes him and opposes his plan. He does not support God’s program because it is against his plan.
10. WHOSE ELECT ARE YOU? Preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, the Son of Man on 18/9/2011, page 14, verses 2-9. “When you have the opportunity to be in His presence, humble yourself down, pay strict attention to the word.
11. For God is now dealing with us individually not collectively. Pay attention to the message, “The book of Revelation fulfilling,” pg. 186.
12. I am still coming to something. There was something I wanted to show you in the book titled “Behold The Man of Sin”. That is where God talked about Ephraim, God spoke about Ephraim. (Behold the Man of Sin, page 11 verses 14-17):
13. “This is the time all the frustrated elect of God should recognize the voice of their Father and come home and have their rest with their brethren.
14. The Lord who scattered Israel is now gathering them again in their home land. ‘Therefore say, thus saith the Lord God: I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered and I will give you the land of Israel’ (Ezek. 11:17, KJV).
15. ‘For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries and will bring you into your own land,’ (Ezek. 36:24, KJV).
16. At the same time the Lord who caused Ephraim to become a Gentile has come to the rescue of Ephraim from slavery and servitude because God cannot abandon His own.
17. Israel is incomplete without Ephraim. Ephraim is God’s first born.’ You can now see that Ephraim is the arrow while Judah is the bow.
18. What is more, the strength of the bow is in the arrow-God bringing Ephraim and joining Ephraim to Judah and THE TWO will be a MIGHTY SWORD in His hand to crush the heathens.
19. Can you see in all the messages, God has been hammering on Ephraimite, why you are what you are! If you are not an Ephraimite; you can never be comfortable in this Faith. For this is the only Faith that unites the Gentiles with the Jews without any further demands.
20. God is not demanding any other thing from the Jews. Equally, He is not demanding any other thing from the Gentiles.
21. You are comfortable. You must be an Ephraimite for you to be comfortable in this Faith. Note, nobody will teach Judah how to stay in peace with Ephraim, nobody will teach Reuben how to be in peace with Gad. You can never teach Joseph to be at peace with Dan.
22. Watch the people that are troubling us in this camp, they are foreigners to God, that is, foreigners to the common wealth of Israel. They are the people troubling us.”
23. A bonafide member of the family does not trouble that family.
24. It takes a stranger in the family to trouble that family. Real children of God do not trouble God for they have the attributes of God. People who trouble the children of God mostly are known to be strangers and mixed multitudes.
25. The character of every child in a family shows where he/she comes from. Strangers are known by their characters. Likewise, true children in the family are also known by their characters.
26. One is a mercenary while the other is a missionary. One is helpful and useful while the other is destructive and exploitative. Both are living in a family like Prophet Samuel and the wicked children of Eli, the priest.
27. YOU MUST KNOW YOUR POSITION IN THE SON OF MAN, preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Son of Man on 22/12/2013, page 75 verses 41-48. “Is it possible for one to cross a point of no return? The answer is yes! Even the scriptures confirmed it in the book of Isaiah saying, “Seek ye the Lord while He is near. Call upon Him, seek the Lord while He may be found.”
28. Which means there is a time you can seek the God, you will not find Him. Seek ye the Lord while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his ways and the unrighteous his thoughts. Let Him turn to the Lord. About turn!
29. As I thought on my ways, I ran back to God. Many do not have time to think on their ways. They are just moving one way.
30. All they know is that they are in the Bride of Christ Ministry. They do not care whether they will be saved or not. “…
31. Let me just ask this question which was asked there: married and unmarried sisters, can any of you obey receiving strokes of cane from your husband, I mean real strokes and then still remain in the Church, and then the man continues preaching without you walking out angrily, without your countenance changing.”?
32. That is during family altar. The husband was preaching in the family altar, the wife misbehaved. Being a Deacon, he gave her six strokes on the back and then continued preaching. The woman continued paying attention without quarreling, without murmuring.
33. I am not telling you what happened in Jericho, I am telling you what happened in a family in this Faith because the word of God must be enforced by force.
34. This is where many husbands are failing and they want to be The Son of Man. If it is possible, they will import The Son of Man into their houses even into their bedrooms. A sign of weakness!
35. Your inability in putting God’s word into action is what you are suffering.
36. You must be a man enough to enforce the word of God in your family. You are law enforcement agent.
37. I want to receive a report that a brother was talking in the family altar, the wife challenged and he gave her more than six strokes and then the wife walked away. Then see the action I will take.
38. When Deacons were Deacons, who are you to shake your head when the word of God is being preached.
39. When we were few, we were obeying to the letter. When we grew in number, the problem of a growing family set in.
40. Mixed multitudes started raising their ugly heads. Families started making noise because unconverted hearts now dominate the homes all in the name of wives and husbands.”
41. Humility and self control are virtues that cannot be bought in any market or learnt in any university (School of thoughts/reasoning). It can only be acquired through complete trust in God and total obedience to the word of God.
42. For God did not give us the spirit of fear; but of power and Love, and of calm and sound mind, discipline and self-control (2 Tim 1:7). Clothe yourself, all of you, with humility towards one another: for God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble (1 Peter 5:5).
43. The word of God must be obeyed and never to be compromised. A humble person obeys the word of God willingly and cheerfully. A humble person is submissive, obedient and respectful. A humble person lives a quiet life and is never quarrelsome.
44. God demands humility and self-control from his children so that they can dwell at peace with Him and with one another.
45. It takes a humble person to be obedient. If you are not humble, you cannot obey leadership. When you are humble, obedience to instruction becomes very easy. Murmuring and complaining stops.
46. A humble person cannot arrogate any unnecessary power to himself. A humble leader carries his followers along but a haughty leader is a dictator. It will take a humble fellow to obey the word of God whether man or woman, brother or sister.
IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE, PUT AWAY THE PHYSICAL SIDE. FIX YOUR AFFECTION ON THE SPIRITUAL SIDE. TAKE EVERY WORD FROM HIM, EVERY ADVICE, EVERY INSTRUCTION, EVERY CORRECTION, EVERY REBUKE FROM HIM AS COMING FROM A SPIRITUAL BEING; A DIVINE BEING, THAT IS YOU’RE SAFETY, ANY DAY YOU BEGIN TO TAKE IT FROM THE PHYSICAL, YOU WILL CLAIM TO BE WISER THAN HIM OR KNOW MORE THAN HIM IN EVERY SUBJECT.
WHERE YOU WORSHIP DOES NOT MATTER BUT HOW YOU WORSHIP PREACHED 19TH JULY, 2020 PAGE 45:4-6
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A DISCIPLE OUGHT TO BE PERFECT LIKE HIS MASTER
YOU ARE THE PILLARS OF THE KINGDOM, preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Son of Man on 1/8/2010, page 71 verses 27-30. “Now, I am Christ, the Anointed One of your day. Before your eyes, I am God. In the beginning, Christ existed. That Christ was in himself God also.
2. How many of you can accuse me of keeping late at night or even coming home drunk? Whose house did I go to drink it? Who has ever come to my house after 7:00pm and my door was opened?
3. You must stay outside. Once it is 7:00pm my gate is completely locked. At least by 7:00pm, you can still see very well. Some motorcyclists ride until 10:00pm in the night. To some of you, 7:00pm is still your morning.
4. I am saying that a disciple ought to be perfect like the master. How many are patterning after the revealed Christ in your day?
5. If you are not patterning after the revealed Christ in your day, let it be known to you that you are not even the head of the family.
6. Your family has nothing to learn from you, until you have become Christ, because in everything, Christ must be our example for He is the Author and Finisher of our Faith which means the beginning and ending.”
7. We should follow the examples of the revealed Christ in our midst. He is transparent and He has never used His position to exploit anybody. He is sincere, just, fair and unbiased. He has never taken bribe from anybody in other to favour that person.
8. Nobody can accuse Him of breaking any of the doctrines He handed down to us. He is dependable, trustworthy and reliable.
9. YOU ARE MY FRIENDS, preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena, The Son of Man on 19/6/2001, page 119 verses 25-27. “Watch, God is repeating events, allow this day to be your best day, it will bring you back to memory lane.
10. The idea is to save your soul. No more, no less. Whatever I will do to make sure you are not disappointed in this Faith, I will do it.
11. I will come to the lowest background and pick the weakest brother, the weakest sister as long as I have seen his or her willingness to enter. Some are willing but the strength is not there. Some are willing but Satan is not happy.
12. Once I see willingness, surely, I will fly in there. From the dustbin, I will help you out but if I do not see the willingness, forget about it because I will not beg you.”
13. Our God is a jealous God. He does not want to have a secret lover who will deny Him in times of trouble.
14. The Son of Man is the only ladder connecting to heaven. The ladder is now available, all that are willing to go to heaven should demonstrate their Faith publicly by stepping their feet on the ladder.
15. The supper magnet is about to take off. So, all the metals that need to be magnetized should present themselves within the magnetic field (zone).
16. The supper magnet can never magnetize any metal outside the magnetic field. As children of God, we must climb the ladder for the ladder to take us to heaven.
17. The Son of Man has enlarged His Super Elastic Wings getting ready to carry all that will come to Him safely to Paradise. Your Faith is needed. My Faith is needed.
18. God is Able and more than Faithful to be Trusted.
SECTION 2
DO NOT WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD EXCEPT WHERE HE HAS CHOSEN TO PLACE HIS NAME
Preached On 5th March 2021
By Bishop Joe Ukpong Household of God at Akwa Ibom
Do not worry. We have already come to the end. That thing that remains can happen. Let Me just close My mouth. WHERE YOU WORSHIP DOES NOT COUNT AGAIN. WHAT COUNTS IS THE TRUTH THAT CIRCUMCISES YOUR HEART AND BRINGS YOU INTO RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. And this truth can only come out where God has chosen to place His Name. And that is God’s chosen place of worship. Where we are now! EBEANO!
WHERE YOU WORSHIP DOES NOT MATTER BUT HOW WORSHIP PREACHED ON 19TH JULY 2020; PAGE 33:55-57
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THE CHOSEN PLACE OF WORSHIP
Remain Blessed my beloved brethren. I thank our God who in His infinite mercy made it possible for us to gather around His Word this bright new day.
2. He; the Son of Man is the justifier of the unjust. Recognizing the fact that you and I are unjust and He justified us, we must always give Him all the honour, glory and praise.
3. Apart from Him who is the Almighty, who else has the power to purify the impurities of the mind and of the flesh? Or to transform us from mortal to immortality, presenting us faultless and blameless before the Almighty who dwelleth in Him?
4. We can see clearly that it is not a work a man can do, that is why, this is the sole responsibility of the Almighty God Himself. He knows how to do that type of work.
5. So, Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN], is not a messenger but the Almighty Himself in our midst! Many are looking at a man, and by so doing, they are bypassing the Deity.
6. God wants you to see Him first – He that must come to Him, must believe that He is the Almighty God, then He will guide you to the vessel where He is living. Look unto God and He will show you His dwelling place, so that you can have faith in His Living Tabernacle He has ordained His Shepherd that will guard His ark.
7. The Ark of God is the Word of God and He is here fulfilling His Word; Emmanuel – God with us. Deuteronomy 12:4-5 NIV, ‘You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, but you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put His Name there for His dwelling.
8. To that place you must go’. Deuteronomy 12:31 NIV, ‘You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshipping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lords hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods’.
9. My emphasis is on the portion of the scriptures we just read which said, ‘But you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put His Name there for His dwelling.
10. To that place you must, M.U.S.T go’. Another portion said, ‘You must not worship the Lord your God in the way they (worldly people) worship their gods.
11. Because in the worship of their gods they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates’. Why? Without the chosen vessel where God dwells; who is the teaching priest, no man born of a woman can worship the true and the Living God in spirit and in truth.
12. The Living Tabernacle is the Spirit Being that helps you and I to worship God in spirit and in truth. Let us go back to the scriptures to trace it from the shadow; which is the type, to the original which is in the midst of the Bride today; the reality.
13. For we are no longer in the shadow but now in the reality. That is where the Lord promised to meet with you and I. The meeting point between God and man is in His Word.
14. His Name is ‘The Word of God’. His dwelling place is where He puts His Name which is His Word – Christ. Acts 7:44-50 LVB, ‘Our ancestors carried along with them a portable Temple, or Tabernacle through the wilderness.
15. In it they kept the stone tablets with the Ten commandments written on them. This building was constructed in exact accordance with the plan shown to Moses by the Angel.
16. Years later when Joshua led the battle against the Gentile nation, this Tabernacle was taken with them into their new territory, and used until the time of King David.
17. God blessed David greatly and David asked for the privilege of building a permanent Temple for the God of Jacob. But it was Solomon who actually built it. However, God doesn’t live in Temples made by human hands.
18. The heaven is my throne, says the Lord through His prophets, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of home could you build? Ask the Lord.
19. Would I stay in it? Didn’t I make both heaven and Earth? Isaiah 66:1-2 LVB, ‘Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool, what Temple can you build for me as good as that? My hand has made both earth and skies, and they are mine.
20. Yet I will look with pity on the man who has a humble and a contrite heart, who trembles at my Word’. The tent constructed as a Temple which was carried about later became a permanent Temple – No more carried about.
21. All these where types or shadow of the original which is a Corporal Body born by a woman. Revelations 21:3 GNB, ‘I heard a loud voice speaking from the Throne, “Now God’s home is with human beings”.
22. He will live with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and He will be their God’. Acts 9:15 KJV, ‘But the Lord said unto him, “Go thy way for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my Name before the Gentiles, and Kings, and the children of Israel’.
23. We can clearly see that the chosen place started as a building and metamorphosed into a human being where God dwells.
24. His Name means His Word in the chosen vessel, making the chosen vessel the Word made flesh. John 1:1-2, 14 LVB, ‘Before anything else existed, there was the Word with God. He has always been alive and is Himself God’.
25. ‘And Christ took our human nature 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’.
26. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. Today, He; the Resurrected Body – Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN] is the Tabernacle, tabernacling the Almighty Supreme Spirit.
27. Where You Worship Does Not Matter But How You Worship page 29:45-49, ‘45I am the Word. The Son of Man is the Word made flesh. I am the vessel harboring the shew-bread from where everybody is eating.
28. Did you get what I am saying? 46Through me, the Greatest Omnipotence the World has ever known is made manifest.
29. 47I am the revealed Name of God and it’s power in this last age, for Christ remains the mystery of God revealed. And Christ also, according to the scriptures remains the wisdom and power of God.
30. 48My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and United in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding. In order that they may know the mystery of God, Namely, Christ.
31. [Colossians 2:2 NIV] 49But to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God [1st Corinthians 1:24 NIV]. Page 33:56-57, ‘56Where you worship does not count again.
32. What counts is the truth that circumcises your heart and brings you into right relationship with God. 57And this truth can only come out where God has chosen to place His Name. And that is God’s chosen place of worship’.
33. God has chosen to place His Name which is His Word in the Son of Man – Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN].
34. And He is God’s chosen place of worship. John 4:21-24 LVB, Jesus replied, “The time is coming when we will no longer be concerned about whether to worship the Father here or in Jerusalem.
35. For it’s not where we worship that counts, but how we worship – is our worship spiritual and real? For God is Spirit, and we must have His help to worship as we should.
36. The Father wants this kind of worship from us. But you Samaritans know so little about Him, worshipping blindly, while we Jews know all about Him, for salvation comes to the world through the Jews’.
37. God’s Chosen Place Of Worship page 124:9, ‘9He said, a time cometh when your people will worship neither on the mountain nor in Jerusalem for where we worship God does not matter, provided our worship is spiritual and real.
38. Note the two key words: SPIRITUAL AND REAL. Not carnal, not mechanical’. Where You Worship Does Not Matter But How You Worship page 33:60-66, ‘60Is our worship spiritual and real? Do we have the Holy Spirit’s help? For God is Spirit, and we must have His help to worship as we should.
39. 61God is a Spirit Being and it behooves Him, the Spirit Being to help us to worship Him as He should be worshipped.
40. 62Do we have the Spirit here among us as our Teacher, Instructor, Guide, Counselor and everything? We have Him in person as our Teacher’. We are sure and certain – as real as real is.
41. ‘63It is written in [the book of] the prophets, and they shall all be taught of God [HAVE HIM IN PERSON FOR THEIR TEACHER]. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to me [John 6:45].
42. 64He that appeared in our midst was photographed. Even if everything can elude your memory, the photographs are there. 65You can deny every thing; you will not deny the photograph.
43. Though they are removed from our physical eyes, they registered in our spiritual eyes. 66We have them here. Besides, we have the individuality in person.
44. The Divine Personality is sitting down here. And we are hearing His voice from morning till now’. God’s Chosen Place Of Worship page 153:18, ‘18The place He will choose as what? His Home.
45. Who does the choosing? God! The choice of a place of worship is God’s own responsibility. Nobody drags it with God. Once He makes a choice of a place of worship, that is final’.
46. Where You Worship Does Not Matter But How You Worship page 36:69-70, ‘69If He has come to put us in right spirit with God, He has also come to put us in the right character, for behind every character, there must be a spirit controlling it.
47. I mean, directing it. 70If that spirit is the one God delights in, you become God’s object of praise’. Page 71:82-83, ‘82Our faces are different, but the spirit is one, and the character is one, for the spirit that is in a man propels his character.
48. 83That is why, people with identical behaviours and identical characters must be packed on one side, for birds of the same feather, birds of the same specie, they move together and the seed can never be an heir with the shock.
49. Do you understand what I am saying? Yes Sir. We must look alike inwardly and also resemble Him inwardly. Page 73:89-92, ‘89Romans 8:28-29 [AMP] “We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labour] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.
50. For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His son [and share inwardly His likeness].
51. 90Did He say, share physically, carnally? I am trying to establish this spirit of worship, reverential worship and worshipful obedience. You resemble Him inwardly. 91“That He might become the first born among many brethren.
52. And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called, and those whom He called, He also justified [acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself]” [Romans 8:30 AMP] 92Hallelujah.
53. This is what I want to get there’. Our Masterpiece – The Son of Man; Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN], Himself being God in flesh is the first born among those whom He set apart and called, put right with Himself and shared His glory with; molding us into His image sharing inwardly His likeness. Page 77:1,
54. ‘1The Word of God said, “It takes the Spirit Being to help us till the End”, for what was assigned to us to help us is the Spirit Being’.
55. Remember it requires the Spirit Being – Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN] to accomplish all things. Page 89:40-41, ‘40When the Word of God comes to you, it shakes you.
56. Confirming the truth without abiding in the truth and without being a part of the Truth, will it give you a ticket into paradise?
57. 41The truth cannot give you a place in paradise until the truth pulls you and delivers you into paradise, for I am the way, the Truth, and the Life. No man enters into paradise without me. I am the door’.
58. Remember that the Son of Man Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN] is the Super Magnet whom I describe as the centrifugal force that pulls you to the direction He wants, contrary to your desire till He empties you at His destination which is paradise.
59. This He does to only His materials or properties; the True Bride only. Page 93:51, ‘51And Christ is your righteousness. That is when you confide in Him, depend on Him, lean on Him and stop leaning on your own understanding’.
60. It has become clear to us that Christ – Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN] is God’s chosen place of worship. That as children of God, we do not worship God anyhow, we do not place our sacrifice anyhow.
61. It must be in the approved place, where He has chosen to place His Name, and He is God’s home, the place the Almighty Himself chose, where the glory of the Almighty came down.
62. Hebrews 12:18-29 [KJV], ‘For you have not come to the mountain that maybe touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of Words, so that those who heard it begged that the Word should not be spoken to them anymore.
63. (For they could not endure what was commanded! “And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it should be stoned or shot with an arrow”, and so terrifying was the site that Moses said, “I am exceedingly afraid and trembling”).
64. But you have come to mount Zion and to the city of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first born who are registered in heaven, to God the judge of all, to the spirit of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
65. See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For, if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, how much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from Heaven.
66. Whose voice then shook the earth, but now He has promised, saying, “yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven”. Now this, yet once more, indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
67. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire’.
YOU NOW KNOW WHAT THE CHURCH IS ALL ABOUT. YOUR LIFE HAS NO PROBLEM AGAIN BECAUSE YOUR LIVE BEARS WITNESS THAT YOU COME OUT OF THAT FAMILY. FOR THE CHURCH IS THE FAMILY OF GOD AND ALL THAT ARE BORN IN THAT FAMILY, ARE GOD’S CHILDREN. YOU SEE WHY YOU COULD NOT PERISH BECAUSE THE CHURCH IS YOUR UMBRELLA. YOUR INSURANCE IS THE CHURCH. THUS, WHEN A MAN IS LOST IN THE CHURCH, HE IS CUT OFF FROM THE CHURCH, CUT OFF FROM THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. MOREOVER, WHEREVER YOU ARE, YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THAT CHURCH IF YOU CONTINUE STEADFAST IN THE FAITH IN KEEPING TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THAT BODY.
THE BUILDING PLAN; GOD’S PLAN TO ESTABLISHING THE CHURCH; PREACHED ON 26TH SEPT. 1993 PG 89:5-6
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THE KINGDOM CANNOT BE SHAKEN NOR DESTROYED
Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN] is Mount Zion that grew out as a tender Hill and became a great mountain, the kingdom we received that cannot be shaken, cannot be destroyed.
2. So make your choice today for it is not too late. The choice you make concerning worshipping of the True and Living God – Apostle Peter Odoemena [BBHMHN] will determine your approach towards obeying His Word.
3. Are You A Churchgoer Or A True Worshipper of God? Page 6 last par. to 1st paragraph on page 7, ‘It is not compulsory that everybody must worship the Supreme God. You have the right to decide the god you will worship.
4. This is where people make mistake or fail. You have to decide the god you will worship. I have the right to decide the god I will worship.
5. Nobody has the right to impose any god on his fellow human being. Worship is a matter of conviction. If you are not convinced, you shouldn’t show any concern.
6. You have to be convinced as an individual that you are not being deceived or forced to believe something that does not exist’.
7. Worshipping the True and Living God is not for everybody but only for God’s children. If you are not a seed of God, you have no right coming to worship God. Everything about God is for God’s children.
8. It does not concern one who is not a seed of God. Thus sayeth the Son of Man. Can you dispute it? No Sir! Are You A Churchgoer Or A True Worshipper Of God? Page 33:1, ‘1The righteousness of a child of God lies in his obedience to the Word of God.
9. His utmost concern is his relationship with God, nothing else. Anytime his conscience convicts him of iniquity before God, he looses his peace of mind until he has made it right’.
10. One that worships God, worships Him in spirit and truth. He worships Him based on the conviction of whom God is. Things You Must Know About Worshipping This True and The Living God, page 42:3-9,
11. ‘3A worshipper of God has direct interaction with God. If you have not started worshipping God to the extent that you have personal interaction with Him, your worship is in vain.
12. 4That is why, even when we where reading the Bible, we where challenged. It says, “We must try to convince God of our worship”. We must try our possible best to convince God that we are His worshippers.
13. 5It is not God that will convince us. It is our duty to convince God. Can God depend on you? God is supposed to depend on you. If God cannot depend on you, you are a counterfeit.
14. 6Is your father supposed not to depend on you? Any son that is not trustworthy or whom the father cannot have confidence in, is a disappointment to the father.
15. 7This is why you must win God’s approval, win God’s confidence so that God can depend on you. God can say, “Even if others have failed, this one is still remaining steadfast”.
16. Can God look at you and say, “It is true that others have disappointed Me, but this one is still worthy of My trust.
17. He is still faithful! Can you be that faithful one? Can I be that faithful one? 8If we go by the story of the Bible concerning Sodom and Gomorrah, how many people was God looking for? How many was sought for as faithful?
18. How many were found? 9God was looking for one, two, three, four, five persons that are faithful and trustworthy. That is what God is looking for.
19. Those God can depend on. If God should come to this our fellowship today, how many people are faithful in their worship of God, in the [promise they made with their family on how they will worship God? How many people are faithful, both man and woman?’
20. Let He That Has Ear Hear What God Is Saying To The Elect Part 2, Volume 2, page 19:18-20, ‘18God does not accept any reason for human failure, for there is no reasonable excuse before God.
21. Right from the days of Adam and Eve till today, God has never considered any man’s excuse. Because when one is about to fall away from the Faith of Christ, his mouth is full of excuses.
22. 19When you are filled with excuses, you are on your way to destruction. But a true seed of God falls flat, tears his heart and not his garment, goes without food, to make sure, I mean, he gets rid of that human weakness and then become right with God again.
23. 20Then there is going to be an overflowing joy in your heart when you have made it right. The relationship between you and Christ has been restored. You are restored and then reconciled, recovered and acquired, settled’.
24. There is no way you can worship God truly without the true character of Christ manifesting in you. By their fruits, ye shall know them.
25. If you do not worship God truthfully, it will definitely reflect even in your life and your family setup, and in everything you, your wife and children do.
26. Your lifestyles will run contrary to the lifestyle of true worshippers. A true worshipper does not worship God only in the fellowship center.
27. Let us go back to the message. Are You A Churchgoer Or A True Worshipper Of God? Page 68:3-6, ‘3If a bulldozer should destroy the physical temple, it can never stop the worship of God, rather worship continues.
28. 4It is the duty of God’s children to worship Him. So, we are not pleading with anybody to worship God, and God is not begging anybody to worship Him. 5He that is worshipping God is doing so for his own good and that of his family.
29. You do not worship God so as to favor Him – He is already contented with Himself. 6There is nothing you can do for God. It is you that needs God’s help. God does not need your help. Bear this in mind’.
30. It is very important for everyone to look into His or Her life. From time to time, examine your life, your interactions with people, so that you will find out the root of your problem.
31. Whether it is from the way you talk or the type of movements you make. Page 80; quote in the box, ‘Character is life! It is your character that determines how far you will go in life. Character is a factor of mentality.
32. If you do not have good mentality, you will be rejoicing in your folly, when you should be crying and looking for a way out’. Page 86:16-18, ‘HOW TO FOLLOW GOD 16A worshipper of God is patient, trustworthy.
33. You must be patient with God. You do not follow God by force, just like a farmer waits patiently for his crops to germinate. This is how to follow God: gradually picking it, Kobo, Kobo – hafu, hafu.
34. 17Also, have the spirit of truth and avoid living above your capacity. Do not live above your capacity, because this is one of the things that put people into trouble.
35. When you start to live a life higher than your income, you have put yourself into confusion. 18Slow and steady wins the race. Conditions are the same everywhere.
36. But seek ye first the kingdom of God in truth. Put God first, in whatever you are doing, so that He can be with you in all your endeavors’.
37. It is not how long we have stayed in the fellowship that matters, but how touching and effective our fellowship has been with God. Did God touch you through His Word? If He did touch you, He will help you to overcome.
38. But if He did not touch you, to you, the fellowship was not effective. I was greatly touched and I give Him all the honour, praise and glory.
On this note, I say Remain Blessed in Him Eternally.