Preached On 10th July, 2020 @ Pastor Melchizedek’s House during Friday Worship, Abakiliki Household of God, Ebonyi State, Nigeria By Pastor Melchizedek Approved and Authorized by Apostle Peter Odoemena The Son of Man
The Greatest Legend of our Time
…. Whosoever that abides in the Lord, the same will live forever with Him. There, you get abundant life, abundant happiness, abundant joy, abundant pleasure, all these things are sufficient in Christ. Thus, let Christ be your sufficiency. Christ is my sufficiency. He is sufficient to me. If Christ is not sufficient for you, you have a problem you cannot solve. If you do not know what to do, come to God. You do not know whether to go left or right, come to God. For without Him you have no helper.
Let Christ Be Your Sufficiency preached 23rd October, 2011; page 12:9-10
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CHRIST IN YOU THE HOPE OF GLORY
Our enjoyment should be in Christ, not in the Devil. Halleluiah! Page 80, That is, Chapter 5: CHRIST IN YOU THE HOPE OF GLORY and the New Year message, 2018 made us to understand how Christ should be in us. That the Word of God should settle in our Hearts.
From Verse 1 – 12 God said: “I WANT TO SEE A FAMILY, JUST LIKE GOD TOLD US: “WHAT MAKES A FAMILY GREAT IS NOTHING BUT CHRIST IN YOUR FAMILY. WHAT MAKES A MAN GREAT IS CHRIST”
Is Christ in your Family? If Christ is in your family, your family will be great, If Christ is not in your family; your family will not be great. A great man, a great personality is one that is in Christ. Christ in you the hope of glory.
Whatever we are today, without Christ we could not have it. Do you want to achieve anything? William Branham told us that in the days of Noah, People built ark that looked like Noah’s ark.
They even built ark better than Noah’s own but they did not build it in Christ. When the rain started, what happened? Noah’s ark floated but the rest sank, they perished. So whatever you want to do, do it in Christ.
A great life, a great personality, it is Christ. Christ in you, the hope of glory. Whatever we are today without Christ, we could not have achieved it. Brethren is it not so? It is Sir!
IT IS CHRIST THAT HAS MADE US TO BE WHAT WE ARE TODAY. THAT IS WHY WE GIVE HIM THE WHOLE GLORY, THE WHOLE HONOUR EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY
Song: We give all glory to the Lord he reigns, we give all glory to the Lord he reigns, He reigns, he reigns forever, and we give all glory to the Lord He reigns.
FOR NO HUMAN BEING CAN TAKE THE GLORY OF MAKING US WHAT WE ARE TODAY BUT CHRIST AND CHRIST ALONE. THAT HAS BEEN MY TESTIMONY, THAT IT IS GOD AND GOD KNOWS THAT MY TESTIMONY IS THE TRUTH
That is my Testimony. Look, each time I crosscheck myself through the memory lane: Precious memory, How they linger, how they ever flood my soul. In the stillness of the midnight, Precious memories flood my soul.
Precious memories of my childhood, Precious memories of those years I have walked in this flesh. When I remember where I was, where Christ took me away; from the cultures and customs of my fathers.
Without this man coming my way I would have been useless. Maybe I would have been dead, I would have been a priest in the culture and customs of my fathers, and I would have been useless on this earth.
When I remember all those things, I remember how God reached His hands, Song: When He reached down His hand for me, I was lost and undone without Christ the Son of Man, when He reached down His hands for me.
Oh! Son of man thank you so much, thank you for my life. Thank you for leading me thus far, I owe my life to You till eternity. I don’t know where I would have been without You Lord. Thank you Son of Man.
“WITHOUT GOD, HOW DO YOU THINK I COULD HAVE ACHIEVED THESE THINGS? NO WAY! NO WAY! SO, THAT IS HOW IT IS”. How do you think I would have come up in this life?
Some of my age mates are dead but look at how God has kept me, look at where he placed my feet.
Song: He placed my feet on the rock to stay, He put a song in my mouth today; A songs of praise halleluiah! He placed my feet on the solid rock. He lifted me and He placed my feet on the strong rock.
WHAT IS YOUR TESTIMONY BEFORE GOD? Brother, Sister! What are your own testimonies? But this is my own testimony. “WHAT IS THAT THING YOU WILL REMEMBER IN YOUR LIFE AND YOU WILL GIVE GOD THE GLORY”?
What is that thing you will remember and you will give God the whole glory. IS IT YOUR IMPLICIT OBEDIENCE OR YOUR DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD? YOUR OBEDIENCE IS IN YOUR HAND.
THE SAME WAY YOUR DISOBEDIENCE IS IN YOUR HANDS. THE WAY YOU WANT IT TO BE IS EXACTLY THE WAY IT IS GOING TO BE.
IF AFTER HEARING THE WORD OF GOD, YOU DECIDED TO THROW IT AWAY, IT IS IN YOUR HANDS. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF YOU DECIDE TO ATTACH IMPORTANCE TO WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD, IT IS ALSO IN YOUR HANDS. LET IT BE KNOWN TO YOU THAT THERE IS NO OTHER OPPORTUNITY!
There’s no what? No other opportunity. So, the proverb that says Opportunity come but once is Truth. In this Foundation Transfiguration, there is no other opportunity; you miss it, you have missed it all and then you wait at last.
You miss this eternal salvation, this eternal gospel, there’s no other opportunity for there is no one that is coming after him.
“A TIME IS COMING WHEN YOU WILL HEAR YOUR LAST MESSAGE. A TIME IS ALSO COMING WHEN I WILL HEAR MY OWN LAST MESSAGE. THE NEXT THING YOU AND ME WILL HEAR IS ETERNITY” So be it Lord.
“WHEN OTHERS WILL ENTER INTO ETERNITY, WILL YOU BE AMONG THOSE THAT WILL ENTER? Will you be among those that will enter? Brother, Sister! This thing is coming to fulfil any seconds from now. “THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ASKING OURSELVES Everyday!
You want to go to bed ponder on this. You wake up from bed, ponder on this.
“IF YOU HAVE THIS CONCIOUSNESS IN YOU, NOTHING WILL MAKE YOU FORGET YOURSELF. NOTHING WILL MAKE YOU FORGET THE HOUR YOU ARE LIVING IN”.
Nothing will make you forget yourself, to the point that you are having all these problem at this dying minute, it is because we have forgotten the hour we are living in that is why we are behaving the way we are behaving.
You have even come to the point that you have forgotten what Corona virus is all about. That is why you are behaving the way you are behaving.
“WHATEVER YOU ARE AND WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING, THAT CONCIOUSNESS WILL ALWAYS BE THERE”. Wherever you are and whatever you are doing, that consciousness of God and the obedience to the Word of God will always be there. Every time, every minute.
“YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE LIMITS IN EVERYTHING” You should always do what? Have limit in everything you do. There is no where you have total Freedom. You should have limit in everything. The way you do things between you and your wife, there should be limit. The limit should be the boundary of the message Christ has given us.
“YOU WILL NOT BE THE TYPE THAT OVERDO THINGS” did you hear it? Don’t overdo things. There is a proverb that says: Too much of everything is a disease. Stop overdoing things, it is bad.
You become angry over everything that is over. Things are good when they are moderate. William Branham in his own said: “We should not do things to the Extremes” we should remain in the middle.
He said a child of God does not do things to the extremes. We should remain in the middle where God has placed us. If you go to the extremes, you will slip off.
If you go to the fountain to drink water and you drink from the middle, there will be no dirt or contamination but at the sides, you will see debris. “YOU SHOULD HAVE A LIMIT WHERE YOU CAN NEVER CROSS “
Which you cannot what? Never cross. “INSTEAD YOU WILL CHOOSE TO DIE. YOU CAN NEVER CROSS THAT LIMIT, FOR CHRIST WILL ALWAYS PLACE A BAR THERE, SAYING NO!
That is the red light. As a child of God, you don’t cross that line. There’s always a “still small voice” in you that will be whispering, showing you that you want to cross the line. But if you don’t have the spirit of God in you, you will cross the point of no return.
“BUT ANYONE THAT DOES NOT KNOW HIMSELF, HE DOES NOT KNOW THE HOUR WE ARE LIVING IN, HE DOES NOT ATTACH ANY IMPORTANCE TO THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST, HE DOES NOT HAVE THE FEAR OF GOD IN HIM, HE IS NOT EVEN BOTHERED BY ALL THESE THINGS.
HE IS ONLY WAITING FOR SUNDAY SO AS TO LEAD IN SONGS, PARTAKE IN CLAPPING AND DANCING, EVEN DANCE MORE THAN EVERY OTHER PERSON, THINKING THAT WE ARE IN THE CONGREGATION OF THE SAINTS FOR DANCING”.
Some people are no longer happy because we are no longer together at GTC where they dance and hit the pulpit. So, they are no longer happy; they are wishing that we should continue like that. No! This is the time of Reality, Every seed must bring forth its kind, in our homes.
“CHECK ALL THOSE THAT CAME INTO THIS FAITH FOR DANCING WHETHER ANY OF THEM IS STILL IN THE FAITH TODAY; ALL THOSE THAT THOUGHT THAT THE WORSHIPPING OF GOD IS ALL ABOUT DANCING.
They are gone. You go down you see Andrew, Charles Onye Army and the rest of them, they are gone. So is that what you want to go back to? Page 87 Verse 16 “WHENEVER THE WORSHIP OF GOD IS TURNED TO A SOCIAL CLUB, KNOW THAT ALL THE PEOPLE ARE PERISHING. DO NOT EVER SOCIALIZE THIS FAITH”.
In your houses that you are worshipping God, you and your family; do not turn the worshipping of God to a social club. If you ever socialize this faith, your own worshipping of God ends in “Palmy”.
Do not turn the worship of God to a social gathering in your homes, as you worship in this period. Halleluiah!
Page 90 Verse 23 to 24: “BUT WHEN YOU GO OUT AND MINGLE WITH THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD AND LEARN THEIR EVIL WAYS, IT WILL MAKE YOU TO BE GOOD FOR NOTHING”
Make you to be good for nothing. Instead of you realizing that you are a “Transformer”. You are the light of this world, instead of you to be the light, rather you allow darkness to overcome your light. Sunlight, sunlight in my soul today.
When sunlight is seen there should be light. You see the traffic light, you see even the headlight of a vehicle, once the light shines, it will reflect. If it is blue, red or white; it reflects. So you will reflect the light that is shining in you.
“YOU WILL BECOME GOOD FOR NOTHING, WHEN YOU SHOULD SHINE AS LIGHT TO PEOPLE IN DARKNESS; YOU NOW USE THE DARKNESS TO COVER YOURSELF, SO THAT THE DARKNESS WILL COVER THE LIGHT”. No!
It is bad. That is why we do all abominable things, shameful things. You go out stealing, prostituting, doing all sorts of things. Why? You have allowed darkness to cover you. NO! IT SHOULD NOT BE SO.
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE BEACON LIGHTS WHEREVER YOU FIND YOURSELVES, REFLECTING THE LIFE OF CHRIST, LIFE OF TRUTH IN YOUR LIFE”
… In the fellowship, everybody is an angel but, in the home, the true colour of everybody is made manifest. Now, everybody is at home and God is now dealing with families, individuals in that family. You cannot hide from God now. So all these people that are in their homes practicing unbelief, God has already marked them. All of them that are mocking God, God has marked them.
Evaluate part 2 vol. 1, preached 5th April, 2020; pg. 71:5-6
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GOD IS TESTING YOUR LOYALTY AT HOME
So, as we Move ahead I turn to page 86 of the message “MY TRAIN HAS LEFT THE STATION” preached on 11th September, 2011. By Apostle Peter Odoemena, the Son of Man. From Verse three (3) it said: “DO NOT EVER BELEVE THAT GOD IS GOING TO TEST YOUR BELIEF IN THE FELLOWSHIP”
Eh! Don’t ever believe that God is going to test your belief in the general fellowship. No! “GOD IS TESTING YOUR LOYALTY AT HOME”
Where? At Home! We are now at our homes. This is the testing ground, the testing; God is doing it in our homes. Families are parting, wives are running away from their husbands. Husbands are now seeing it as an opportunity to be on their own. No! You have failed the test.
“HE IS TESTING YOUR BELIEF AT HOME, HE IS TESTING IT IN YOUR WORK PLACES, HE IS TESTING IT ON THE HIGHWAY, IN THE STREET, AND HE IS TESTING IT IN YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES. THAT IS WHERE GOD IS WATCHING YOU, NOT WHEN YOU COME TO THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE SAINTS “.
But at your homes. How you will live with your husband. It is not when things are good. When things are good every person is a child of God, there will be no problem. It is when things are hard.
So when the going is tough, the tough keep on going. When the road is rough, the rugged, the rough keep on moving.
So, God is testing your Loyalty at home. My loyalty at home and that is what God is doing!
Page 105 in the same message, Verse 4 “IF YOU STOP AT THAT WHICH YOU KNEW, YOU ARE NOT SAVED” If you stop on what you know in the time past. God said: “I am the one that gives law, I am the one that cancel the law”
The Lord keeps on moderating us on a daily basis, all we need to do, is to follow God. When He negotiates a curve, do not remain where you were before. Follow God each step at a time. Don’t be rigid, be flexible in the hands of God. Be like the guava wood Noah used in building the ark.
The Guava wood was flexible in the hand of Noah. Like Ply – wood. Ply wood means anywhere you wants to turn, you turn it. He wants to cut you left, you will not say No or Right, you will not say no. You will move the way the builder wants.
Remember He is the Builder. He is the Potter and we are the clay. He molds us the way He wants not the way we wants. Break me, melt me, re-mold me and re – fill me, thou son of man. Amen.
So if you end on what you knew God at time past and What God is saying now, you don’t want it.
“IT MEANS NOTHING HAS TAKEN PLACE” You are static. They say Creativity is doing the usual things in an unusual way. You are not creative, when you keep on doing one particular thing in a particular way, you will receive the same result.
It means nothing has taking place in you. Your life should be according to the word of God that is giving to us.
“YOU MUST GO TO SOMETHING YOU KNOW NOT; AND THE ONLY PERSON THAT WILL GIVE US THESE THINGS REMAINS CHRIST, WHO IS OUR ONLY HOPE OF SURVIVAL IN THIS FLESH
“The only hope of our survival in this flesh is who? Christ, the Son of Man and He is the only person that is worthy, filled and sent to give us this Faith. For if you do not receive it, I don’t know where else you will go and receive it.
Blessed be to his Holy Name. I want to read from the message “THE PAINS OF LABOUR AND THE JOY OF DELIVERY” preached on 8th May, 2011. At the Household of God Onitsha. By Apostle Peter Odoemena, the Son of Man.
Page 10 Verse 4: “LET ME TELL YOU THE TRUTH FINALLY: THE MYSTERY OF YOUR DEPARTURE IS HIDDEN IN NUMBERS. HENCE, YOU COULD HEAR THAT ANY MOMENT FROM NOW, JUST LIKE PLAY, PLAY YOU WILL SEE COUNTDOWN 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0; THE END.
LET HE THAT HAS THE UNDERSTANDING, THE INTELLIGENCE – THE MYSTERY IS THERE IN THE NUMBERS – CALCULATE FOR THE NUMBER IS THE NUMBER OF YOUR DEPARTURE.
IF YOU CAN GET IT ACCURATELY: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, THERE IS NO NEED WASTING YOUR TIME. IT IS ALREADY THERE. I AM TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THERE”.
In the countdown, there is a message William Branham preached called “The Countdown” In that message He was trying to use the astronaut to type. You know He said “I am a topologist”, using nature to type.
He used the movement of scientists, the astrologers that goes to the space, to the moon to exploit. He said, in this journey of the astronaut, the rocket they use is divided into seven cushions (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) that seven is the head. You have seen rocket now, the head they use, they fix it here on earth.
Remember what I read is what? Countdown. What is countdown? When something is coming from up. When the astronauts are going, they are moving up, they will start counting from one (1).
But William Branham made us to understand that when God wants to count, He does not count like human beings, starting from One, He counts from Zero (0). But when human beings want to count they start from one, and ignoring Zero.
He said, Zero is like Eternity. It does not have beginning, it does not have an End. Do you understand? And then what is this Zero?
What is this Countdown? This Countdown I titled it as: “THE NAVIGATION OF CHRIST FROM ETERNITY INTO FLESH AND THEN FROM FLESH BACK TO ETERNITY”. The navigation of Christ from Eternity into what? Flesh. Then from flesh back to what? Eternity.
What is this Navigation all about? Why this Navigation of Christ into time? This navigation of Christ into time means God coming into flesh. Tabernacle in a flesh because his children tabernacle in flesh, and there is no way He can redeem them other than coming down himself in flesh.
That they can have fellowship together to redeem them as they were having in the beginning, in the Garden of Eden. For this journey, this navigation to be completed, God came down in flesh; Zero (Eternity), He walk out of Eternity into Time, which is what? Flesh. From this flesh, where is He going back? He is going back to Eternity.
Going beyond the curtain of Time, Plump back into Eternity. God stepped out from his house, the cloud; into flesh. He navigated! And remember, if you look at the Pyramid, the stature of the pyramid, you see the seven church Ages.
It has been the journey of God, moving round the gentile church ages. Starting from the Ephesus down to the Laodecia. Paul, Irenaeus, down to William Brahnam.
God navigated. What was the essence of that Navigation? Bringing out his Children from where they were caged down. For the work of complete Redemption, and for eternal Salvation.
So this countdown, He said: “when God wants to count, God does not count beyond Seven, He counts from Zero and stops at seven. The next count, He goes back to where? Zero. We come from God and we are going back to God.
But when Men count from One to Seven, they went back to the beginning, pick another one again join the 7, it becomes Eight, they went back again, pick one, join to zero, it become Ten.
So they keep on adding, they multiply it into trillions and quadrillions. But God only stops at seven which is a mark of what? Completion. If you look through the stature of the perfect man, you will see that the Seven church Ages, if you count from the first Church age which is Paul down to William Branham, you see that they are Seven but you look, you will see the Headstone.
And then if you look at our calendar here (2018 Calendar) you see the Headstone that was snapped by Bishop Moses of Blessed Memory. In this place we are the last but we are coming first, in this headstone, in the countdown, the headstone came from up.
Remember, there’s a gap between the last church age and the headstone. So, when this headstone is dropping down, it gets us (we) in Christ. The Holy Spirit envelops us and then we start descending to William Branham’s Church Age down to Paul’s Church age. We the last will become first.
The magnet is hovering, it is pulling, so we must be a part of this headstone. If you are not a part of it, then you will be denied, you will not be raptured.
For we, who are alive must be caught up, meet with him, Where? In the Cloud. This Theophany body where we will not be destroyed. From here we will move down to the last church Age.
It is a great privilege to us who have seen the Son of man in this countdown; The Headstone. When it was captured, people were asking, was there an Explosion in your midst? The program of God is not broken.
Look at it, it exploded, it is coming down. If you are not a part of it; if you are not engraved in it, you will not go with him. So, it is an opportunity for us to be engraved, get ourselves tight in him and the only way we can do it is by obedience to the word of God.
That is the only way we can get ourselves hooked up within this Navigation. The word of God has gone round, the journey of God has gone the whole world. There is no part in this world that we will say the message of the Son of Man has not penetrated.
When the message of God has gone the whole world, what else do we need? We are going home. We are going back to where we came from. It is the countdown.
Why is it coming down? Christ the headstone, the cloud; we meet with him in the cloud. So if you are left behind, if you are not covered with the boundaries of this eternal gospel of Christ, you will be totally lost. Blessed be to his holy name.
Let’ s read Revelation Chapter 1 verse 3 in Amplified Version: “Blessed (happy, to be envied) is the man who reads aloud (in the assemblies) the word of this prophecy ; and blessed (happy , to be envied) are those who hear (it read)”
Listen, for you to be blessed in this generation is for you to hear the word of the Son of Man, this eternal gospel and abide. Once you hear and you abide, that is only when you will be blessed.
Song: I am blessed, blessed as I look around me I realize that I am blessed, am surely am. I am not blessed because I have car, building or so much amount of money in the bank. No! I am blessed because when I look at my right, my left, and front and back; I see nothing but what the Son of Man has done for me. That is what makes me a blessed man.
You are a blessed woman, a blessed man if only we remain in the boundary the son of man has placed us. You are blessed if you have the opportunity in this life to hear the gospel of the blessed God of your day.
“And who keep themselves true to the things which are written in it (heeding them and laying them to heart) for the time (for them to be fulfilled) is near”. And heeding to where? To the heart! Does it conform to 2018 New Year Message? Yes Sir!
Your attitudinal change brought about by your implicit obedience to the word of God revealed to you in your own day. The only thing I believe that can offer you that desired salvation is your attitudinal change. Change of attitude as a result of your obedience to the word of God that is revealed to you in your own day. That is the only thing that can give you that desired salvation. You manifest a wrong attitude, you are gone. It is that attitude and remember, the way you take God is the way God will take you. It is the change of my attitude towards THE SON OF MAN.”
Evaluate yourself part 2 vol.1 preached 5th April, 2020, page 102:4-9
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YOUR WORSHIP IS IN VAIN WITHOUT THE WORD IN YOUR HEART
If you hear and heed this word in your heart. “Lord cause me to heed these Words in my heart that I may obey you”. That if the word of God does not have a resting place in your heart all your worship of God is in vain.
It is only those that the word of God has a resting place in their hearts, these are the only people that will be caught up with this headstone.
Not that it is near, it is already here with us. What Time is it Brethren? It is the time for the fulfilment of the Word of God. So, if you don’t know, know it very well that we have come to the fulfilment of the Word of God.
I STILL CONTINUE WITH THE MESSAGE THE PAINS OF LABOUR AND JOY OF DELIVERY PAGE 64 FROM VERSE 1 TO 3: “NOW I AM GOING TO THE WORD. THE PAINS OF LABOUR AND THE JOY OF DELIVERY. WE ARE HAVING OUR LABOUR, THE LABOUR HAS STARTED WHETHER YOU CALL IT EARLY SIGN OR FIRST LABOUR, LABOUR HAS STARTED. WILL IT GO BACK AGAIN? NO!
We are having our labour, it has started, and there is no going back. It is the labour pain that we are going through. Why have you forgotten so easily? He said: “Carry this message wherever you go” Why is it that a woman that is in labour does not want to pass labour pain?
You must pass through all the pains because the joy is that you are giving birth to a baby alive, and that is the Joy. If not no woman would like to take the pains for nine months but because there is a purpose towards that, she endures till the end.
“IN OTHER WORDS, WE ARE NOW COUNTING IN DAYS AND NO LONGER IN MONTHS. I DO NOT KNOW WHETHER SOMEBODY HAS GOTTEN THE MESSAGE” Did you get the message? We are now counting in what? In minutes, in seconds, no longer in months.
“THE MOMENT LABOUR SIGNS BEGIN, A PREGNANT WOMAN DOES NOT COUNT IN MONTHS AGAIN”. A new baby is about to be delivered, why are you making noise. Why not endure? If you must work with this God you have need of patience.
“SHE NOW COUNTS IN DAYS. FROM DAYS TO HOURS. FROM HOURS TO MINUTES, FROM MINUTES TO SECONDS FROM SECONDS TO IN A TWINKLING OF AN EYE” That is all.
The highest pain, and that is where we are now. That is where we are, we are counting in seconds, in a twinkle of an eye everything will be over. We are at the gate. Before you realize, this countdown will count Zero, piam! We are into Eternity. Amen
We go back to where we came from. Why are we at the gate? We are at the verge of plumbing back into Eternity. No beginning, no end, no sorrow, no suffering, no pain, no old age.
Song: This world is not my home, Am just passing through. My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue. The angels beckon me from heavens open door and I can’t feel at home in this world anymore. Halleluiah!
Who exactly is Responsible for this? From where you read in Revelation Chapter 1 Verse 13: “And in the midst of the lampstands (one) like a son of man”
You know there is no other language they will use other than one like the son of man but we are telling you that one that was in the midst of these candlesticks was who? The Son of Man. Who was this Son of Man? The Almighty God.
You see who we are having dealings with? The one that was sending the messengers of every Church Age, He was the one giving them the portion of the word in every age. The man that counted it not robbery but made himself equal with man, became flesh. That is what the psalmist said: “Down From His Glory”
Song: Down from His glory, ever living story. My God and Saviour came, and Jesus was his name. Born in a manger, to his own a stranger. A man of sorrows, tears and agony.
CHORUS
O how I love Him! How I adore Him!
My breath, my sunshine, my all in all
The great creator became my saviour,
And all God’s fullness dwelleth in Him.
What condescension, bringing us redemption; that in the deed of night, not one faint hope in sight; God gracious, tender, laid aside His splendor, stooping to woo, to win, to save my soul.
Without reluctance, flesh and blood His substance, He took the form of man, revealed the hidden plan.
O glorious mystery, sacrifice of Calvary, and now I know Thou Art the great “I Am”.
All God’ fullness dwelleth in the son of man but condescended so low, took the form of a man but don not forget; He is still God in human flesh. Will He remain in the flesh? No! He said: “I am tired of putting on this suite “He wants to go back to where He came from. That one day I will take my cross and go home to rest. One day, and we are going.
Do not remain like some of the children of Israelites that remained back in Egypt. Don’t be like that Iron, that concrete filled the columns that the magnet cannot pull out.
So, I continue in page 67 of the message THE PAINS OF LABOUR AND THE JOY OF DELIVERY “FROM VERSE 9 TO 11. God said “GET READY FOR YOUR FLIGHT, FOR YOUR FLIGHT IS NEAR” Eh! He said we should do what? Get ready for our flight, for our flight is near. “IT IS NEARER THAN YOU LEAST EXPECTED” I believe it so Lord.
“FOR THERE IS NO PERIOD IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND WHEN PROPHECIES FROM THE SPOKEN WORD OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD ARE FULFILLING SO RAPIDLY THAN THEY ARE FULFILLING NOW” Do you believe that? Yes Sir!
“HENCE, THE TIME WHEN WE SHIFTED THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECIES, SPOKEN WORD TO THE FUTURE ARE COMPLETELY OVER ” As it is said, so it is happening.
“IF YOU ARE FOND OF POSTPONING THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY TO THE FUTURE, I BET YOU, YOU WILL POSTPONE YOUR SALVATION INTO THE GREATEST HORROR IN THIS GENERATION WHICH IS THE GREATEST TRIBULATION WHERE NO FLESH IS SAVED” God Forbid!
I go to page 70 From Verse 16 to 17 ” THE PAINS OF LABOUR IS ABOUT TO BE OVER ” The pains of labour is about to be what? Over
“THE PAINS OF LABOUR IS ABOUT TO BE OVER, THE NEXT THING WILL BE THE JOY OF HAVING A BRAND NEW BABY FOR LIFE IS BORN. WHEN LIFE IS COMING OUT, THE FACE OF A WOMAN IS NEVER A HUMAN FACE. WHEN THIS HAPPENS , LIFE IS COMING OUT “
That is why we are groaning in pains because a brand new baby is about to be born. Families are groaning in pains but God said, we will not be the worst hit but we will have our own fare – share.
“THE LORD OUR GOD WILL DO NOTHING BUT REVEALETH HIS SECRETS TO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS”
There is nothing He is doing that He has not revealed to us, so we should rather follow Him.
Page 84 From Verse 42 To 43, of the same message” THE PAINS OF LABOUR AND THE JOY OF DELIVERY ” God said “THEY HAD ENOUGH TIME BUT THEY HAVE DEVOTED THAT TIME TO USELESS NONSENCE”
You have enough time, I have enough time but what are we using this time for? Useless Nonsense. Things that do not have Eternal value.
“TO THINGS THAT DO NOT HAVE NO LASTING VALUE. IF YOU MUST COVET ANYTHING, IF ANYTHING MUST TROUBLE, YOU PASS SLEEPLESS NIGHT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING, LET THAT THING BE SOMETHING THAT HAS ETERNAL VALUE. ANYTHING THAT DOES NOT HAVE ETERNAL VALUE, PLEASE GIVE ITS OWN PLACE FOR IT IS TEMPORARY, IT IS PERISHING WITH THE PERISHING WORLD.
It is perishing with the perishing world. THAT IS WHERE I TALKED TO MY BRETHREN AND SAID “Borrow a cue from me” BORROW A CUE FROM ME, THAT IS, FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE. AS MANY THAT HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING ME, THEY KNOW WHAT I HAVE BEEN TELLING THEM. GOD SAID, “YOU SHOULD DISENTANGLE YOURSELF FROM ANY EARTHLY TIE. PLACE THINGS WHERE THEY BELONG”.
Place things where they belong. Place the things of God where they belong. Do not muddle them. It is our guilt that every now and then we muddle things up.
Let us go to page 88 from verse 52 To 53: “TELL ME, POOR PEOPLE LIKE US, MILLIONAIRES OF THIS WORLD, and WEALTHY PEOPLE OF THIS WORLD. MAY BE JUSTIFIED IF THEIR WEALTH TRAPPED THEM HERE. POOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU, WHAT IS YOUR JUSTIFICATION IF YOU ARE TRAPPED?
Brethren, if you are trapped, and what will be your justification? If you are not translated, what will be your excuse? I was listening to the music of Erico, He said that there are two paradises.
The paradise here on earth and the paradise of the kingdom of God. Rich people are here already in the paradise of this world.
I said, It is True, they cannot enjoy own paradise here on earth and also enjoy the paradise of the kingdom of God in heaven. No!
You did not join them to enjoy their own paradise here on earth and you also miss the paradise of the kingdom of God in Heaven, Don’ t you know that you will be the most miserable?
“THAT THING WHICH YOU ARE NOT PREPARED TO FORFEIT FOR THE SAKE OF ETERNAL LIFE, IS WHAT WILL HINDER YOU FROM GETTING ETERNAL LIFE AND ALSO PUT YOU INTO PERPETUAL TORMENT IN HELL” God Forbid!
So you will be prepared to let off, burn the bridge, every bridge you cross, Do what? Burn it, for there is no going back. You want to look back; He said “Remember Lot’s Wife”. Anytime you want to look back, remember who? Lot’ s Wife.
Every bridge you cross, Do what? Burn it down, Like Seth Rollins. Halleluiah! Let me go to page 132 From Verse 32 To 37: “NOTE IT IN YOUR HEARTS; ONE OF THIS DAYS, YOUR NEIGHBORS WILL USE THEIR LEGS TO BREAK YOUR DOORS THINKING YOU ARE INSIDE. ANY MOMENT FROM NOW”. God said when? Any moment from now!
“AS MANY THAT WILL BE BENEFICIARIES, YOUR NEIGBORS WILL FORCE YOUR DOORS OPEN. TAKE NOTE OF WHAT I AM SAYING. FOR IN YOUR OWN, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO MAKE A JOURNEY, YOU WILL BE TRANSFORMED; AND WHEN YOU ARE TRANSFORMED YOU VANISH. THERE IS NO NEED WAITING FOR BROTHER ISRAEL OR WAITING FOR BROTHER OJIAKOR. WE ARE MEETING IN THE SAME PLACE FOR WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE MEETING”
There is no need waiting for anybody, We will be transformed and that will be the end of the whole thing
“WHEN YOU VANISH, WHERE DO YOU VANISH INTO? LIGHT YOUR CANDLE OR ANYTHING, YOU WILL SEE THE SMOKE, THE SMOKE WILL GO UP. BEFORE YOUR EYES, IT WILL VANISH. NOW, WHERE DOES THE SMOKE VANISH INTO? INTO THE AIR.
IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IT, YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THAT JESUS THE CHRIST VANISHED, THAT ELIJAH VANISHED, THAT ENOCH VANISHED. MANY HAVE BEEN VANISHING, EVEN THOSE THAT RESURRECTED WHEN JESUS THE CHRIST CAME OUT, THEY WERE MANY AND WENT TO GALILEE, MANY EYES SAW THEM AND THEY VANISHED.
A HUMAN BEING LIKE PHILIP AFTER BAPTIZING THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH, HE VANISHED AND LATER APPEARED.”
Let us read Matthew Chapter 27 Verse 52 to 53″ And the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints which slept arose”.
Verse 53 “And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many “.
Many bodies of the saints arose, they came out of their graves, and eyes saw them. William Branham said they remained on Earth for about Forty days. Forty days is what? Judgment!
“WHY DOUBTING IT? HOW MANY CASES WILL I USE TO ESTABLISH THE TRUTH? HOW MANY CASES WILL YOU WANT ME TO SITE TO ESTABLISH THESE TRUTH? IT IS LIKE RESSURECTION. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS NOT KNOWING THE DATE, BUT BEING READY”
It is not knowing the date that is important but being ready. God said “Even if I know, I will hide it very well” Get Read! How Ready Are You? “REMEMBER HE SAID THAT YOU MUST BE FOUND IN PEACE, WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE”
You must be found where? In peace. But your families are being found in pieces. Wives are running away, husbands are running away. Is it in peace? Families are boiling, Is it peace? But you are waiting o, waiting for what? Translation! Which translation? Is it the translation of your grandfather?
“GOD SAID THAT WHAT WILL SPOT YOU IS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN YOUR HEART “What is happening where? In your heart!
“THAT IF GOD WILL NOTICE A SPECK OF UNBELIEF TO THE MESSAGE PREACHED BY THE SON OF MAN, IF GOD WILL NOTICE A SPECK OF UNBELEIF IN YOUR BEHAVIOUR”
A sign of unbelief where? In your behavior, in your character.
“HE SAID THAT NOTHING IN THIS WORLD NOR IN THE WORLD TO COME WILL MAKE YOU TO CROSS THAT GATE “
“IF GOD WILL NOTICE THAT YOU LOVE THIS PRESENT WORLD LIKE DEMAS, JOHN MARK AND BARNABAS, IF YOU LIKE CAUSE THE DEAD TO RESURRECT , YOU ARE NOT CROSSING THE GATE
“JOHN MARK WAS A MINISTER, BARNABAS WAS A MINISTER, DEMAS WAS A MINISTER; THEY WERE ALL APOSTLES AND THEY LOVED THIS PRESENT WORLD MORE THAN THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL. TEMPORARY PLEASURE MADE THEM TO FORFEIT ETERNAL PLEASURE”
Brethren, Will you be part of them? No Sir! People that temporary pleasures will make to forfeit their eternal pleasure. No! It will be too bad, let it not be mentioned about us. Amen
“Examine Your Family Life “MARRIAGE – THE SWEETEST RELATIONSHIP ON EARTH. Honestly, brethren the date this message was preached was not recorded. It was preached by the Son of Man, Apostle Peter Odoemena. I want to read from page 19 From verse 2 To 3: ” IT IS SO, BECAUSE WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING HERE, YOU ARE RETROGRESSING OR PROGRESSING; YOU ARE EITHER RESENDING OR ASCENDING”
Whatever thing you are doing, it is either you are retrogressing or progressing, it is either you are moving forward or backward. But I think it is better for us to move forward with the Son of Man instead of going backward, let’s move forward.
“HEAR ME VERY WELL, IF YOU REDUCE YOURSELF TO THE BAREST LEVEL – I MEAN TO THE BASE, DON’T BE SURPRISED THAT YOU WILL LIVE UNDER TOMENT FOR A VERY LONG PERIOD, AND WHEN YOU REINCARNATE, THE SAME SUFFERING WILL ACCOMPANY YOU “
But we have come to the end of everything, there is no time again for us to reincarnate. Don’t reduce yourself to the barest level, where you cannot be attracted to the magnet.
Verse 7 To 10: “HUMAN BEING IS THE REFLECTION OF THE LIGHT” Who is the light? The Son of Man. And human being is the reflection of the light, as refraction reflects the light. In the message “THE IDENTIFCATION OF THE MIGHTY ANGEL” God talked about the rainbow, you see the reflection. The seven colours, it is the light in it that helps the reflection of the rainbow.
When the light of God shines through you as a child of God, You will do what? You will reflect Christ. Is the light of Christ shining through you? You will reflect it in your life. You are now reflecting the life of Christ in this period of waiting, in this spiritual fattening house. He warned us that let there be nothing between you and Christ.
The only way we can attain the true light is through the message, by eating the word in this fattening house. By eating the Word that is only when we reflect the light. You will no longer be the same, when the light shine through you that is only when it will illuminate through you. It will refine you. It will eat up every worldliness in you.
“WITHOUT THE HUMAN BEING THE LIGHT IS USELESS. I HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU ABOUT THE WAYS YOU CAN ASCEND TO THE HIGHEST REALM OF LIFE AND GET CONNECTED TO THE TRUE LIGHT SO THAT YOUR ENTIRE BODY WILL BE ILLUMINATED – YOU WILL NO LONGER BE THE SAME.”
“THEREFORE, START YOUR JOURNEY NOW BEFORE IT WILL BE TOO LATE”.
Brother, Sister! Almighty God said we should do what? Start our journey now before it will be too late. Before you will be left behind.
“WHEN MANY ARE YET TO START THEIR JOURNEY, SOME HAVE GONE FAR WHILE SOME ARE STILL CREEPING ; AND IF YOU DARE DIE AT THE CREEPING LEVEL YOU ARE GONE”
Did you hear God? If you die at the creeping level, you are gone. Start your journey now, now there is still time. Refine yourself, cleansing yourself so that you will not have any difficulty going with God.
“I WONDER BY THE TIME EVERYTHING WILL BE MADE RIGHT WHERE YOU WILL APPEAR. WHEN YOU SEE ALL THESE MAD PEOPLE, THEY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR MADNESS.
WHEN YOU SEE SIMPLETONS (Those lacking common sense) MINGLING WITH THEIR GROUPS , THAT IS WHERE THEY ARE FITTED, BECAUSE YOU MUST BE PLACED WHERE YOU ARE FITTED”
“THE HEIGHT YOU ATTAIN WILL DETERMINE WHERE YOU WILL BE PLACED” let somebody shout amen, Amen!
“DON’T WORRY. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT EVERYTHING STARTED HERE AND WILL END HERE, YOU ARE FOOLING YOURSELF; NO, NO, NO, DROP THAT NOTION IMMEDIATELY”
If you are of the opinion that man die go woman born another. No! Drop that notion. Page 22 From Verse 11 to 20 ; Titled “Beyond The Curtain Of Time”
“I WILL SCRATCH IT WITH TIME AND GOD WILL VINDICATE IT BEFORE EVERYBODY’S EYES, BECAUSE I KNOW IT IS A SUPERNATURAL MESSAGE THAT IS NOT WRITTEN ANYWHERE; IT COMES FROM THE THRONE OF GRACE”
I told my children, there are some messages God preach, He doesn’t make references, and it will come directly from the throne of Grace.
IT WILL TAKE THE ELOHIM HIMSELF TO VINDICATE THAT MESSAGE. UNTIL IT IS DONE THE HEART OF MAN CAN NEVER BE PUT RIGHT WITH GOD”
God is doing all He is doing so that the heart of man will be put right with God. If your heart is not right with God now, I don’t know when it will be.
“UNTIL IT IS DONE MAN REMAINS IMPERFECT AND NOBODY CAN CONNECT WITH THE LIGHT IN THIS IMPERFECT STATE. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. I REPEAT: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE”
In your imperfect state you cannot connect with the light. The only thing that makes you perfect is the word of God.
“YOU MUST APPEAR PERFECT IN ALL ASPECTS. DON’T WORRY, I WILL TALK TO YOU ON PERFECTION IN THE PRESENT REALM.
I SPOKE TO YOU ON BIBLE PERFECTION TO THOSE THAT BELIEVE THE BIBLE THAT TIME AND YOU SAW WITH ME THAT IT WAS JUST A MERE IMPRACTICABLE SUPERSTITION
“THERE IS NO MAN THAT CAN ATTAIN PERFECTION THROUGH THE WRITINGS OF THE BIBLE, SO THE CONTENTS ARE IMPRACTICABLE. THEY ARE JUST MERE HUMAN THINKING. YOU THINK YOU HAVE ATTAINED IT – No!
“WHEN YOU ATTAIN IT, IT IS A PERMANENT STATE, AND IT IS FINAL JOURNEY THAT TAKES OFF FROM HERE. ARE YOU HEARING ME? AND NOBODY ATTAINS PERFECTION IN ONE GENERATION.
WHO CAN TELL ME HOW MANY GENERATIONS THAT HAD PASSED BY BEFORE JESUS APPEARED, AND BECAME PERFECTION TO HIS LINEAGE?
“YOU CANNOT TELL ME. NOR CAN YOU TELL ME HOW MANY TIMES YOU HAVE APPEARED HERE, AND THEN THE LEVEL YOU HAD BEEN OPERATING OR EVEN JUSTIFY YOUR APPEARANCE.
“YOU ONLY APPEARED TO REPEAT THE MISTAKES YOU HAVE BEEN MAKING ALL THESE YEARS “
Do you see it? We only reincarnate to repeat the same mistakes we have been making all these years. “BECAUSE YOU NEVER MET ANYBODY WHO COULD OPEN YOUR EYES”
Before now we were blind spiritually, but now God has appeared to open our eyes in this last time, and we are privileged to meet God face to face, in the person of the Son of Man (Apostle Peter Odoemena) blessed be His Holy name and He has opened our eyes of understanding. So, if you should make a silly mistake again, you will go in for it.
“SOME ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE WITH THOSE MISTAKES UNTIL THEY APPEAR THE LAST TIME” Some are what? Likely! Why will it be you that will repeat that same mistake you made in time past when you were without Christ?
“WHICH IS THE SEVENTH GENERATION; AND THEN, THEY VANISH”
“THERE WILL BE NO MORE RESURGENCE FOR THEM ON EARTH; THEIR GENERATION IS WIPED OFF AND IS FORGOTTEN, AND THEN THE REMNANT OF THE EARTH WILL SELL OFF THEIR PROPERTIES.
WHATEVER WEALTH THEY LEFT BEHIND WILL BE DISTRIBUTED AMONGST THE REMNANT OF THE EARTH. THEIR PLACES WILL BE REMEMBERED NO MORE AND THAT IS THE END OF THAT GENERATION.
MANY ARE WALKING TOWARDS THAT WAY, WIPING OFF THEIR LINEAGE WITH TIME. WHEN YOU TRANSFER YOUR FOOLISHNESS TO YOUR CHILDREN, THEY WILL KEEP ON TRANSFERING IT.
BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, THEY WILL ARRIVE AT THEIR FINAL POINT, BECAUSE LIFE IS A JOURNEY AND THE JOURNEY DOES NOT END TILL ETERNITY.
YOUR ETERNITY IS YOUR SEVENTH GENERATION. NOBODY HAS EVER GONE BEYOND THAT; I SAID NOBODY HAS EVER GONE BEYOND THAT. SO, FOLLOW ME GRADUALLY”
That is what we have now, The Jubilee year.
Song: This is the year of Jubilee, this is the year of Jubilee, when the lame shall walk and the blind shall see, when the lord shall set the captives free, and this is the year of Jubilee.
I want to read page 103 Verse 11 “WHEN YOU REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE WIND OF CHANGE IN YOUR DAY, YOU WILL REMAIN THE SAME AND YOU ARE BOUND TO BE WORSE EVEN THAN YOUR PARENTS”
Song: The wind is blowing again, the wind is blowing again, as in the days of Pentecost. The wind is blowing again. The wind of the almighty God is blowing again, as it was in the days of Pentecost.
If you allow the wind to change you, it will change you, if you don’t allow the wind to change you, it will not change you. You will remain.
To God be the glory. I want to read something in this message “BEWARE OF STUBBORNNESS WHICH IS IDOLATRY” VOL 1 (FLEE FROM IDOLS PART3) PREACHED ON 2ND DECEMBER, 2018.
Before then let me read 1 John 3 verse 2 Living Bible: “Yes, dear Friends” Who is addressing us? God! “We are already God’s children, right now” God said we are already his children right now and we can only remain in the beloved if only we remain obedient
“And we can’t even imagine what it is going to be like later on. But we do know this, that when he comes we will be like him, as a result of seeing him as he really is”.
Has He come? Yes Sir. Now He has come, we should be like Him.
“Beloved, we are (even here and) now God’s children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be (hereafter), but we know that when He comes and is manifested, (we shall as God’s children) resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He (really) is “.
I Want to turn to page 6 from verse 5 to 10 “SO, I HAVE GOOD REASONS WHY I SHOULD RE – CONSECRATE MY LIFE TO HIS SERVICE “
We have good reasons why we should re – consecrate our lives to his service, Even our marriages should be re – consecrated to the service of God. So, we should remain re – consecrated, everything to the service of God.
“I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU. PEOPLE ARE PLAYING PRANKS THINKING THEY ARE FOOLING GOD, THEY DO NOT KNOW THAT THEY ARE COMMITTING SUICIDE.
ANYBODY THAT SAY, HE IS PLAYING PRANKS WITH GOD IS INDIRECTLY COMMITTING SUCIDE. YOU ARE SENTENCING YOURSELF INTO HELL FIRE WHERE YOU WILL SUFFER ETERNAL PUNISHMENT”
How do you play pranks with God? By being disobedient. If you are disobedient to God, you are doing what? Sentencing yourself into Hell Fire.
“THAT WHICH GIVES YOU TEMPORARY JOY WILL GIVE YOU ETERNAL SORROW IF YOU ARE NOT CAREFUL. MY DUTY IS TO TELL YOU THE WHOLE TRUTH, TO SHOW YOU THE OBSTACLES LYING BEFORE YOU. THEN AS AN INDIVIDUAL YOU HAVE TO REMOVE IT YOURSELF”
As an individual you do what? You remove it yourself.
“I WILL SHOW YOU YOUR FAULT BUT YOU HAVE TO EFFECT THE CORRECTION; I WILL GIVE YOU ALL THE MATERIALS YOU NEED TO CORRECT IT, IF YOU DO NOT CORRECT YOUR ERROR, NOBODY WILL CORRECT IT”.
Brethren Do you hear now? It is not God that will correct your error, you are the one to do so.
“IT IS JUST LIKE SOMEBODY THINKING THAT THERE IS A MIRACLE THAT WILL HAPPEN IN REPENTANCE WHICH IS CHANGE OF MIND. THE MIRACLE IS GOD REVEALING TO YOU WHERE YOU ARE ERRING AND SUPPLYING TO YOU THAT WHICH YOU DID NOT KNOW, WHICH YOU WILL USE TO CORRECT THE ERROR BUT GOD CAN NEVER COME DOWN AND CORRECT IT FOR YOU. IMPOSSIBLE!”
But He will show you, supply you the materials. What are the materials? The Messages.
“FOR THAT REASON, WHATEVER THAT PUSHES YOU INTO EVERLASTING TORMENT IS IN OUR HANDS.THERE IS NOBODY SITTING DOWN BEFORE ME HERE WHO DOES NOT KNOW HIS FAULT, MAN OR WOMAN
“IF YOU SAY YOU DO NOT KNOW YOUR FAULT, YOU ARE NOT SINCERE TO YOURSELF. YOU DO NOT NEED A PROPHET TO COME AND TELL YOU THAT THIS IS WHERE YOUR PROBLEM LIES. EVEN IN YOUR PRIVATE PRAYERS, OFTEN TIMES, YOU WEEP”.
Why? Because you know what is tormenting you. I go further to page 11 Verse 19
“YOU SEE WHY, IF YOU MUST GUARD AGAINST ANYTHING, GUARD AGAINST FAILURE. GUARD AGAINST EVERYTHING THAT DEPICTS WRONG”.
Guard against what? Failure! Anything that depicts wrong is the thing that will take you away from the boundary where God has placed us.
“KEEP YOURSELF FROM ERROR BECAUSE ONCE THE MISTAKE IS MADE, IT IS MADE, IT IS RECORDED EITHER AGAINST YOU OR IN YOUR FAVOUR, WHICHEVER!
Once that little error, that little crack is made in your family, you want to run away, it is recorded against you. Even if you are staying alone; you are still carrying the problem.
The scar is still there, when God opens his record, have you made it right? You are running away, that is not the solution. Halleluiah! Blessed be to his holy name. We thank God so much.
Let us look at verse 26: God says “I AM SENT FOR THE PERFECTION OF ALL GOD’S PEOPLE STARTING FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN”
For what? Perfection of all God’s people starting from the Garden of Eden. And the only thing God uses for this perfection remains the Spoken Word.
“IN ME THE WORKS OF GOD ARE MADE PERFECT. YES! BUT AS MANY AS REFUSED TO ACCEPT ME AS THEIR SAVIOR , BELIEVE MY MESSAGE, THE WRATH OF GOD SHALL BE REVEALED UPON THEM STARTING FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN WHERE CAIN SLEW ABEL”.
Page 14 verse 30: “SO, I REALLY GIVE GOD THE PRAISE WHO BY HIS ENABLING POWER HAS BEEN DRIVING US UP TO THIS VERY EXTENT WE ARE. HE HAD BEEN OUR DRIVER, TAKING HIS TIME TO MAKE SURE HE TAKES US TO A SAVE LAND “.
Brethren Do you see it? God is taking His time, to make sure that He take us to the save land. But you want to come down from the boat, it is left for you.
Let us consider page 21 verse 54 “SO, BEING AN ELDER DOES NOT MAKE YOU A BELIEVER. HAVING A PART OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD, A PART OF THE SPIRIT OF MOSES DOES NOT MAKE YOU A BELIEVER”
Do you see the Godhead, part of it cannot make you a believer. Christ in you the hope of glory, and that is only when you are a believer.
“It is not enough until you have the totality of the Godhead dwelling in you. Only then can you serve God satisfactorily, acceptably”. If you do not have the whole of God in you, you cannot serve God acceptably.
Page 47 from verse 37 to 38 “AND THE VOICE WOKE ME UP REMINDING ME THAT I AM NOW RUNNING LATE AND ENCOURAGED ME TO MAKE HASTE TO SEE WHETHER SOME PEOPLE MIGHT BE SAVED”
You remember the incidence God narrated, the voice that woke Him up in the midnight. He said He should make haste to see whether some people will be saved. And that is what He is doing and as He is trying, but then some people are showing tha.t they don’t want to be saved.
I don’t want salvation. All I want is husband, all I want is money, and all I want is children. You want to have children that are neither of God nor the Devil.
“THE VOICE SAID, “SON OF MAN, ARISE; DON’T YOU KNOW THAT TIME IS UP? YOU ARE RUNNING BEHIND SCHEDULE. MAKE HASTE, ROUND OFF THE MESSAGES, PERADVENTURE SOMEBODY MIGHT BE SAVED BEFORE MY WRATH WILL BEFALL THE PEOPLE OF THIS GENERATION,
FOR I HAVE VOWED NEVER TO DRAW BACK AND ANY MOMENT FROM NOW, MY FURRY AND INDIGNATION WILL BE REVEALED UPON THE HEADS OF ALL MANKIND ON EARTH. MAKE HASTE”.
He is looking for those what? Changed hearts and mind. For you to begin to change your heart and your mind, you must recognize what you were before, for you to know when that needed change has taken place—a change that is brought about by your obedience to the truth that is revealed to you. It is not compliance, it is obedience. For obedience takes place in the heart, compliance take place in the brain. If you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Christ is the Lord, you shall be saved. You can be confessing with your mouth when you have not believed with your heart.
It is time to seek the lord preached 26th Feb. 2017; pg 43:20-21
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PURIFY YOUR HEARTS
Is it happening before our eyes? Yes! Whether you believe or not. Let me read a quote from the message “FLEE FROM IDOL” VOL 2. PREACHED ON 4TH MARCH, 2018. CHAPTER 2 VERSE 22 – 25
“WE ARE WORSHIPPING A DYNAMIC GOD, A VERY INTELLIGENT GOD, FULL OF WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING”
Look at how intelligently with events He controlled us to go to our homes, to worship in our homes because that general worship was no longer helping us. He started with Friday worship in our homes, from there Sunday worship in our homes started. To see the spirits that are made up in our homes; intelligently!
“GOD WHO ABHORS EVERY FORM OF IDOLATRY AND WHO DOES NOT EVEN RECOGNISE THEIR EXISTENCE. ALL THESE PRIMITIVE CREATURES IN OUR MIDST, AS OLD AS THE EARLY MEN OF HISTORY, BEGIN TO RECREATE YOURSELVES, RECREATE YOUR MINDS, RECREATE YOUR MENTALITIES, RECREATE YOUR HEARTS”
Recreate your mentalities, your hearts with the word of God. The spiritual balanced diet.
“WHEN I WAS TALKING ABOUT ETHICAL RE – ORIENTATION, I WAS TALKING ABOUT RECREATING YOURSELF, BECOMING A BRAND NEW FELLOW WITHIN AND WITHOUT.
ONCE A DIRTY FELLOW WILL NOW BECOME CLEAN IN THE HEART AND OUTWARDLY. GET RID OF FILTHINESS OF THE HEART AND FLESH”
Get rid of what? Filthiness of the heart and flesh. That is where the problem is, and get rid of filthiness of the heart.
“LET US WORSHIP GOD IN PURITY. PURIFY YOUR HEARTS WITH THE WORD OF GOD, SO THAT THERE WOULD NOT BE ANY ROOM FOR ANYTHING IDOL IN YOUR HEART. EVEN, LET THE SIGHT ALONE DISPLEASE YOU”
See what He is preaching these days, all to get rid of any idol, any disobedient, stubbornness out of our life. So that we can worship Him acceptably.
Page 60 from verse 26 to 30 of the same message “ALL THAT HINDERED YOU FROM WORSHIPPING GOD, THAT SAME THING WILL HELP YOU TO ENTER HELL. WHEN ENTERING HELL, YOU WILL STILL GO WITHOUT IT. YOU WILL AMASS IT FOR OTHERS.”
Those things that are hindering you now to worship God are the same thing that will make you to enter hell. All these things; you will not carry them along. So, which one is your gain? Double wahala for dead body.
“WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT OR NOT, ONE DAY SOMEBODY WILL OCCUPY YOUR HOUSE, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, ONE DAY, SOMEBODY WILL GET MARRIED TO YOUR HUSBAND, SOMEBODY WILL GET MARRIED TO YOUR WIFE, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, AND SOMEBODY WILL TRAIN YOUR CHILDREN.
YOUR CHILDREN WILL TRAIN SOMEBODY ELSE. BELIEVE IT IF YOU CAN, IF YOU KNOW THAT THING YOU THINK YOU OWN PERMANENTLY, NAME IT AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU WILL ABANDON IT ONE DAY.
“One day your hands and legs will be paralyzed, your eyes closed, your mouth shut. You will not know where you are. You will not hear the cries of your friends. You will not hear the voices of friends. You will not hear even the cajoling of your enemies. It is one way.
“You will not remember your motor, you will not remember your wife, you will not remember your husband, nobody, no house. It must be one way, your face, up, No U-turn.
“Then those things you laboured for, those things that made you pass sleepless night, those things that made you incur more enemies than friends will be left behind then judgment follows. Judgment follows and you are standing alone. No advocate.”
Oh! Brethren, it is a dangerous situation. These things that are making you not to swear full allegiance to God, you will not go with it. It beholds us to make a U – turn now that there is still time.
Page 64 paragraph 39: “TODAY CAN BE THE DAY OF SALVATION TO SOMEBODY WHO REALLY WANTS TO BE SAVED”. Do you really want to be saved? Today is that day.
“SO, GOD HAS COME AGAIN, WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR FROM ME NOW, SALVATION IS ATTACHED TO IT. IT IS NOT TO WIDEN YOUR KNOWLEDGE, IT IS TO GIVE YOU FULL AND COMPLETE SALVATION.”
So, we should pay attention to what God is saying this day. It is for our full and complete salvation.
I go to page 70 and consider verse 67 to 68 “GOD IS THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. THE MOMENT YOU REJECT GOD, GOD WILL ALSO REJECT YOU AND THE POSITION GOD HAD ALREADY ALLOTTED TO YOU, YOU WILL NO LONGER TAKE IT “.
Do you see it? So the righteousness of the saints can only save them when they remain in the word of God obediently.
“IF GOD HAS PROMISED YOU A GOOD POSITION, PROMISE TO GIVE YOU A PLACE IN THE KINGDOM AND YOU NOW REJECT THE WORD OF GOD WHICH IS GOD, YOU WANT TO OCCUPY THAT POSITION WHEN YOU HAVE REJECTED THE WORD WHICH IS GOD, YOU ARE MAKING A MISTAKE.”
You are making a great mistake for it is only when you remain obediently that His promises can come to you. Halleluiah!
“I AM THE WORD” VOL. 1 preached on 9th January, 2014. by Apostle Peter Odoemena, the son of man. Chapter 1 from verse 21 to 27 “ONCE YOU ARE LIVING THE LIFE OF DISOBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH, YOUR HEART CAN NEVER BE RIGHT WITH GOD. AND I SHOW YOU A SIGN: IF YOU RECEIVE ANY INSTRUCTION OR COMMAND FROM THE LORD, PLEASE, IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE, TAKE IT THE WAY IT IS GIVEN TO YOU. DO NOT INTERPRET IT, DO NOT REASON IT, THE DEVIL WILL MAGNIFY IT, EXAGGERATE EVERYTHING UNTIL IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO OBEY IT. EVERY INSTRUCTION FROM GOD IS VERY EASY, VERY SIMPLE”.
That is why I told you, any instruction you are given, anything you are told to do, go ahead and do it. Do not say, later, before you realize you forget, the devil will take over.
FOR THE SCRIPTURE SAID, “THE LORD HAS GIVEN US HIS INSTRUCTION AND HIS INSTRUCTIONS ARE NOT GRIEVOUS THEY ARE NOT CUMBERSOME. THEY ARE VERY EASY “.
The instructions of God are very easy but when you start processing, your brain start processing it, it becomes cumbersome, you mix it.
“BUT THE MOMENT YOU SIGH, MURMUR, AND GRUMBLE, THE DEVIL WILL MAGNIFY THAT INSTRUCTION ABOVE YOU SO THAT YOU WILL NEVER OBEY IT. AND THAT MARKS THE BEGINNING OF YOUR DOWNFALL, THE BEGINNING OF YOUR FALLING AWAY.
DO NOT EVER ATTEMPT BRIBING THE SON OF MAN FOR YOU KNOW YOU HAVE NOT SUCCEEDED IN TIME PAST AND YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED EVEN AT THIS TAIL END”.
The only bribe you can give to Him is your total Obedience. Let me also read this quote from the message LET THE SPIRIT THAT IS IN CHRIST BE IN YOU “Preached March, 2012; Chapter 3 verse 75 – 77 “THE MIND OF GOD IS THAT WE MUST COME TO PERFECTION”
We do what? Come to Perfection. It is only perfect love, Perfection. When we are not perfect, He will not take us, for the mind of God is that we come to Perfection.
“WE MUST BE HOLY, FOR THE LORD OUR GOD IS HOLY. WE MUST BE PERFECT BECAUSE THE LORD OUR GOD IS PERFECT. WE ARE THE WRITTEN EPISTLES READ BY ALL MEN. GOD EXPECTS US TO BEAR HIS NAME THROUGH HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS”.
“IF YOU HAVE PRIDE IN YOU, YOU CAN NEVER GIVE ANYBODY A SERVICE, YOU CAN NEVER HUMBLE YOURSELF DOWN. IF YOU HAVE THE SPIRIT OF BOOSTING, THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN HUMBLE YOURSELF, BUT CHRIST SHOWED THE PERFECT EXAMPLE”.
“THOUGH HE IS GOD, HE NEVER COUNTED IT ROBBERY. HE CAME DOWN AND BECAME SERVANT. IMAGINE GOD WASHING PEOPLE’S FEET. AND HE IS COMMANDING US THAT WE SHOULD LET THE SAME MIND THAT WAS IN CHRIST (HIM) TO BE IN US SO THAT WE CAN BE OF A SERVICE TO HUMANITY”.
I remember when we were in primary school in those days, we used to sing that poem: He that is down does not fear to fall. He that is low does not fall. He that is humble ever shall have God to be his Guide. Until you are down to earth, God will not redeem you. A proud man achieves nothing all the days of his life.
I go to page 99 verse 13 of “BEWARE OF STUBBORNNESS WHICH IS IDOLATRY” God said: “WILLIAM BRANHAM SAID, “IF YOU HAVE THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST; WHICH MEANS YOU AS A CHILD OF GOD ALL YOUR ACTIONS MUST DEPICT CHRIST”.
All your actions must what? Depict Christ. Your lifestyle must reflect Christ.
“BUT IF YOU SAY YOU HAVE THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST AND YOUR ACTION IS SPEAKING DIFFERENT FROM THE CHARACTER OF CHRIST, YOU ARE A BLASPHEMER AND AN IMPERSONATOR AND GOD CAN NEVER HOLD YOU GUILTLESS FOR BLASPHEMING HIS NAME. YOU ARE CLAIMING TO BE WHAT YOU ARE NOT. HAVING THE KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT PUTTING IT INTO PRACTICE IS ABSOLUTELY USELESS.”
Do you take note? You have the knowledge but you do not put it into practice. It is only when we meet God obediently that the word of God will fertilize in our heart.
Is not it so? A woman can only fertilize when she meets the husband in her fertile days. In her ovulation period. That is when she will conceive.
We conceive Christ in our heart to displace doubt and unbelief. That is only when Christ the word of God is made fresh in our hearts, but still there are people who does not bear the fruit of the word of God. Reason being that their Hearts have been blocked.
Let me read BEWARE OF STUBBORNNESS WHICH IS IDOLATRY; Page 100 verse 15 to 26 “THE REALITY IS CHRIST IN YOU THE HOPE OF GLORY. IF CHRIST IS NOT IN YOU, HE SAID, GLORY NOT.
IF CHRIST IS IN YOU, WHAT WE ARE READING TO BE THE QUALITY OF CHRIST MUST BE THE QUALITIES OF HIS CHILDREN OR ELSE THEY ARE CONTERFEITS, THEY ARE BASTARDS.
WHATEVER SNAKE BEGET MUST BE SNAKE. WHATEVER THAT IS BEGOTTEN OF GOAT MUST BE GOAT. WHATEVER THAT IS BEGOTTEN OF THE DEVIL MUST BE DEVIL. WHATEVER THAT IS GOD MUST BE GOD
THE BIBLE SAID IN THE BOOK OF 1 JOHN CHAPTER 3 VERSE 9, SAID “THAT A CHILD OF GOD DOES NOT COMMIT SIN FOR THE SEED OF GOD ABIDETH IN HIM.
Do you see it? The seed of God abideth in him. WHICH MEANS A SEED OF GOD CAN NEVER BE STUBBORN, HE CAN NEVER BE DISOBEDIENT.
YOU SEE WHY THE PSALMIST SAID, “GOD GIVE ME YOUR WORD THAT I MAY NOT BE DISOBEDIENT TO YOU”. TO YOU WHO THE WORD OF GOD IS COMING TO THIS MORNING, HOW OBEDIENT ARE YOU TO THE WORD THAT HAS BEEN COMING TO YOU ALL THESE YEARS? DID IT STOP YOU FROM EVIL THOUGHT, FROM YOUR WRONG WAY, FROM STIFFED – NECKED, FROM COMPLAINING AND MURMURING, YET YOU STILL PRAY THAT GOD SHOULD CLOTH YOU WITH IMMORTAL BODIES.
GOD, CLOTHING IMMORTALITY OVER UNRIGHTEOUSNESS SO THAT UNRIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE PERMANENTLY DWELLING WITH GOD, IS THERE ANY UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN GOD? HOW CAN THE UNRIGHTEOUS LIVE WITH GOD ETERNALLY? THE UNRIGHTEOUS CAN ONLY TEMPORARILY STAY WITH GOD HERE ON EARTH, BUT BY AND BY YOU ARE PARTING”. By and by you are what? Parting!
“TWO SHALL BE IN THE BED, ONE WILL BE TAKING AND THE OTHER WILL BE LEFT. TWO SHALL BE IN THE FARM, ONE WILL BE TAKING AND AN OTHER DROPPED.
“WHATEVER THAT WILL MAKE ONE TO BE DROPPED HERE IS INSIDE THE PERSON’S HEART AND HE KNOWS ABOUT IT. Are you following? What will make you to be dropped is inside your heart, and you know it. Whatever thing you are doing is pretence, and you don’t want to correct it.
DAVID SAID, “I KNOW MY TRANSGRESSIONS, MY TRANSGRESSIONS ARE IN ME AND THEY TESTIFY AGAINST ME. NOBODY WAS THERE WHEN DAVID’S SIN WAS TESTIFYING AGAINST HIM BUT HE KNEW.
Whatever that is testifying against you, you know. When David recognized, He made a U – turn and ran back to God. What about you? Amen.
THUS, HE SAID, “I KNOW I HAVE SINNED AGAINST YOU AND ONLY AGAINST YOU FOR MY INIQUITIES TESTIFY AGAINST ME. BUT ONE THING I AM PLEADING FOR, GIVE ME ANOTHER CHANCE. I WILL NEVER ATTEMPT IT AGAIN AND I WILL TELL SINNERS YOUR WAYS AND THEY WILL SERVE YOU”.
Can’t you cry tonight? That God will give you another chance, that God will give you another touch.
Song : Just another touch Lord from you, oh lord, to help in the hard trials I go through, though dark may be my way, you sent a ray of hope and I got another touch Lord from you.
This should be our prayer everyday, because when we get another touch from him, He keep us moving.
Verse 9 “THEREFORE (Because he stooped so low) GOD HAS HIGHLY EXALTED HIM. Because He did what? (Because He stooped so low).
“HE ABASED HIMSELF. THE WAY UP IS DOWN. WHEN YOU HUMBLE YOURSELF, GOD WILL EXALT YOU. HAVE YOU SEEN THE PROUD AND ARROGANT HUMBLING HIMSELF DOWN? EVERY STUBBORN FELLOW FEELS HE WILL BE LOSING SOMETHING IF HE HUMBLES HIMSELF DOWN AND TAKE THE WAY OF THE POOR AND SIMPLE.
“HE THINKS HE IS LOSING HIS INTEGRITY. HE DOES NOT KNOW THAT GREATNESS IS MEASURED BY SIMPLICITY.
“A GREAT MAN IS GREAT BECAUSE OF HIS SIMPLICITY. WHO IS GREATER THAN GOD? GOD IS THE GEATEST BUT HE HUMBLED HIMSELF AND BECAME THE MEEKEST OF ALL TO THE POINT THAT HE KNEELS DOWN BEFORE HUMAN BEINGS HE CREATED INSTEAD OF DESTROYING THEM, PLEADING WITH THEM BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KNOW WHERE THEY ARE HEADING TO”.
Look at how God is pleading, pleading with us even though we do not know where we are heading to, God is still pleading, calling us back.
Make a shift, make a U – turn. Don’t keep on going, where you are going is total destruction. Come back, hear the voice of God for some of us are heading to destruction.
Just like my friend, because of a little problem, he was locked up in the guard-room, the rope we use to hang the band, he put a basedrum, climbed, hang the rope, put his neck, the leg slipped off from the basedrum. He was dying.
A lady officer passing by heard it and screamed, we went; broke the cell, unhanged him down. The eyes were red. At that point we gave the rope to him to go and hang himself, He refused.
He thought the best was to hang himself. Some of us are heading to destruction, God is calling us back, we think if we come back, we are coming back for his own good. No! It is for our own good. That is why He is calling us, come back, and make a U – turn.
A psalmist said : I was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore, very deeply stained within seeking to rise no more, But the master of the sea hearing my despairing cry, from the water lifted me, now save I am. Love lifted me, love lifted me, when nothing else could help. Love lifted me.
When love is projected, what happens? Divine grace takes over. He is showing us his divine grace, let us make a U – turn.
There may not be another opportunity again. Brother! Turn, where you are heading to is perdition. Return to Christ, He is calling, He is calling, and He is waiting because of you.
“CAN YOU IMAGINE THIS MAN INSTEAD OF KILLING THEM, HE SAID, “FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING”.
FOR HE THAT THEY WERE PLAYING WITH WAS ONE WHO WAS IN CONTROL OF THEIR LIVES, THEIR DESTINY AND EVEN THEIR DEATH “.
Page 121 verse 12 to 13: “DO NOT FEAR THE MAN WHO WILL DESTROY YOUR FLESH ALONE BUT FEAR THE MAN WHO AFTER DESTROYING YOUR FLESH, AFTER PUTTING YOU IN GRAVE, WILL SENTENCE YOU TO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT IN HELL”.
Who is that man? God! The son of man. The Son of man is the man who will put you into everlasting punishment in hell. ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD. AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO AVOID
That is what every child of God is trying to avoid while those who are not children of God are heading towards it, through the broad way; the end thereof is Destruction, Death.
“NOT DEATH IN THE FLESH BUT THE ONE THAT WILL PUT US TO ETERNAL TORMENT, ETERNAL HELL WHERE NOTHING CAN BAIL US OUT” Do you see it? Where nothing will bail us out. Let us remain in that boundary which God has set for us. Halleluiah!
Let us finally consider page 124 Vs. 23 to 25 “TELL ME ONE WHO IS COMPLAINING AND MURMURING AND I WILL SHOW YOU A STUBBORN FELLOW “
I will show you who? A stubborn fellow, a disobedient fellow, an unbeliever.
“AN INCORRIGIBLE FELLOW, A SELF – CONCEITED FOOL”. So when you are stubborn, you are a fool. “HOW MANY OF THEM DO WE HAVE SITTING DOWN HERE THIS MORNING? IDOLATERS LOOKING AT THE SON OF MAN WAITING FOR IMMORTALITY, WAITING FOR TRANSLATION OF THEIR MORTAL BODIES. “YOU THINK THE SON OF MAN DOES NOT KNOW WHO YOU ARE? Where we read said, He takes the picture. He is the Bridal CCTV. He monitors everything in our homes, in our individual lives. He monitors all.
“YOU THINK THE SON OF MAN DOES NOT KNOW WHO YOU ARE? I KNOW YOU” The Son of man is saying, “I know you”.
“I KNOW ALL YOUR WORKS, I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE BASKING WITH. IF YOU ARE SWOLLEN HEADED, I KNOW WHAT IS CAUSING IT”. If you are a proud fellow, The Son of Man knows.
Page 126 Vs. 31 to 32 “A STUBBORN FELLOW STANDS IN THE WAY OF GOD. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? THAT IS WHY HE IS GOD’S PERPETUAL ENEMY”. Do you want to be God’s perpetual enemy? YOU MIGHT BE THINKING THAT THERE IS GAIN IN BEING STUBBORN, THERE IS WISDOM IN SIMPLICITY. THERE IS DESTRUCTION IN STUBBORNNESS”.
Verse 35 in page 127: “GET RID OF THAT RAMPANT, OUTGROWTH OF STUBBORNNESS THAT IS CONSTANTLY AT WORK IN YOU. IN EVERY STATEMENT, YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY, IN EVERY SUGGESTION, YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO OFFER. IF IT DOES NOT GO THE WAY YOU WANT IT, HELL WILL BE LET LOOSE AND WHEN YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH YOU POUR OUT VENOMS WITHOUT REGARD TO GOD, WITHOUT REGARD TO AGE, TO POSITIONS, TO INTEGRITY, THEY NOW MEAN NOTHING”.
Oh! God help me. Why not say God help me? Amen. Brethren this is the much we can go tonight.
So that we can go and rest. If you are blessed shall we give a round of applause to the Lord? To Him Alone Be the Glory Now Till Eternity. Amen.
Remain Blessed in Him Eternally.