PREACHED ON SUNDAY, 23RD AUGUST 2020 AT THE BRIDAL LODGE, NSUGBE ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA. BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN The justifier
…ALL I NEED IN MY LIFE IS CHRIST. CHRIST IS SUFFICIENT FOR ME. HOW MANY WILL LIKE TO HEAR FROM ME? I AM BODILY PRESENT AND ALSO SPIRITUALLY. WHATEVER HEAVEN IS MADE UP OF IS HERE. THE POWER UPHOLDING THE UNIVERSE IS HERE. WHATEVER YOU THINK GOD IS MADE UP OF IS HERE. THE DEITY IS HERE. YET, MANY DO NOT KNOW. IF YOU LIKE BELIEVE. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE, THROW IT AWAY. BUT I AM SURE AND CERTAIN THAT HE THAT CREATED THE HEAVENS
AND THE EARTH IS HERE THOUGH YOU MAY NOT KNOW HIM. HE IS HERE PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY. THE TOTALITY OF WHAT GOD IS ALL ABOUT IS HERE.
MY PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW ME (OPI SERIES); Preached in 2001; Pg. 23 vs. 1 – 2
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THE CONVINCING DEMONSTRATIONS OF GOD [1]
To God be the glory, great things He has done. We have gathered in His Name just to worship Him and to appreciate Him for all He has been doing for us.
Since we got acquainted with Him personally and practically, He has been demonstrating [Oh!] convincing. Demonstrations to convince us that we are having dealings with Him.
We have series of many convincing demonstrations of His Power, of His Majesty and of His dominion even over all human flesh.
He has never allowed us to go the way we want, but has always been subjecting us to obey His will, because we are His sons and daughters. He will never allow us to go astray.
He has displayed before us unquestionable evidences where we can lay hand on and say, “Surely, the Lord liveth and reigneth forever and ever; and He is the same yesterday, today and forever.”
We are sure and certain that the God of the first century remains the God of twenty-first century.He will never change. He has never changed.And He will not change because of us. Till eternity, He remaineth the same.
What is more? We are feasting on His infallible proofs. Not one proof. We have been laying our hands on infallible proofs.
He went further to give us two immutable things; Two indisputable and un-annullable things:[1] HIS PROMISE and also [2] HIS OATH which He swore by His Name. Alleluia!
And we know that by these two infallible evidences, proofs and unquestionable attributes of the Deity displayed among us, it is impossible for God to tell a lie.
We are no longer in doubt as to whether we shall be saved at the end or not. Rather we are now sure and certain of whom we are following.
And we are sure that if we can hold on to the conviction we have about Him and about the revealed Faith of THE SON OF MAN without shaking, immovable, and steadfastly unto the end, the promised Salvation; the promised Eternal Life now belongs to us. It is indisputable, sure and certain.
We have to be convinced individually beyond all reasonable doubts that we are in the Reality. We are not worshipping after our feelings or the imaginations of our hearts.
We are not believing because somebody told us.No! We are believing because, we have seen, we have heard, and we have proved.
Oh! We have tried even the Spirit and we are sure and certain, that we are having dealings with no other person than the Sovereign Spirit that created the whole universe;
The Judge of the whole earth. The Justifier of the Righteous[Oh! Glory be to His Most Holy Name] Who is revealed in our own day in the Person of our own Brother, Father and Relation, our Kinsman –APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA.
God could not find any other flesh that could meet His Righteous demands and He went to the forbidden area in one of the jungles in Africa and picked from where nobody could believe His Name could be mentioned.
He picked from nowhere than Africa, in the remotest jungles where life was so primitive, so that it will be unbelievable to believe that Christ would be there.
It is just like what we saw in the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is alive even here this morning, but wearing another Name. A new Name which He is using to confuse the whole world.
He never allowed Himself to be born in the house of Kings like King Herod, like Pharaoh, like Pilate.
He never allowed Himself to be born in the families of notable Pharisees, Scribes, Sadducees, Sanhedrins, Nicolitans and Herodians. He never allowed Himself to be born in such great families.
Look at where He chose; He chose to be born by a Carpenter. A street Carpenter who is of no repute. He was of no repute. Where was He born? Where animals are kept.
There were maternity homes beautified and decorated, where people were born, but when it came to the turn of the Messiah, there was not even a room for Him; not even a Hotel. There was no room for Him.
There was no house where He could be born. The mother was directed into the bush where animals were kept. There, the Messiah was born; The King of kings and the Lord of Lords.
From nothing, He is now exalted above all names in Heaven, on earth, and beneath the earth.
He has become the Ruler and the Controller of all flesh which He created. God, from nothing, from a humble and simple beginning, He is exalted. Amen!
To God be the glory! I am revealing the God we have come to worship this morning. The God we have been worshipping, and meditating on His words.
So, I want all of us to be sure and certain of what we are believing, what we are dying for and why we are saying no to anything contrary to His revealed Word.
I want all of us to be sure and certain of why we are not ready to associate with any group and we are not ready to mingle with or to argue with anybody concerning what we believe, for what we believe is best known to us.
Everyone must have that individual belief which is confirmed and vindicated by the Almighty.
I gave everybody a Message to consider, and we will do well also to read a little about it. I gave it on Friday and I know we have not touched it here. IS YOUR TICKET VALID AND OKAYED?
Your ticket to Paradise. You have purchased it quite alright. I do not know the source where you purchased your own, for there are many sources of purchasing Air tickets.
No matter where you are purchasing your own, emphasis lies on confirming, and authenticating it.
It must be verified, authenticated, confirmed and stamped “okay” by the appropriate authority. And that is the Airline. That is the Airline.
If you come presenting an Air ticket that is not authenticated, certified, confirmed, and okayed by the Airline, you are not traveling with that Airline. It then means you purchased a fake ticket from a fraudster.
There are too many fraudsters like that. You see them writing “Air Travel Agencies. ”Even when you get to the airport, there are too many touts.
You will see many of them, who will tell you “Look at our shop there. Look at our office there. Just come, purchase the ticket and before your eyes we will stamp.”
It is just like what we are seeing today. You know you cannot use the alert on your handset to confirm payment. Somebody can scroll into [hack into] your account straight away.
And they will then fake an alert, giving you the indication in your phone that money is paid into your account, but when you get there, you will see nothing.
That is why you are being warned by the banks that when you get an alert, it is not an alert until you have confirmed it with your account holder.
They have warned that if you are a trader, do not release your goods, for many have been arrested in Aba, in Onitsha, in all commercial cities where they use to fake alerts to carry people’s goods on the spot.
The fraudsters know the application they will chip in, and the thing will give you alert instantly there and you will think they have paid into your account.
That is why they insist that at all times, you must know your balance in the bank so that when they fake an alert, you look at the balance because that fake payment can never reflect in the account balance. It ends in the phone.
Assuming you have a balance of one thousand naira [₦1,000.00] and somebody is carrying your goods worth five thousand naira [₦5,000.00]; and he pays you on the spot, automatically your balance will be six thousand naira [₦6,000.00].
If, after paying you ₦5,000.00, you check your bank account balance, and from the alert you see nothing, this is because the fraudster’s alert does not carry balance, for he never penetrated into your account.
But people are always in a haste. They can hardly look at their balance. They only see alert and the amount. And then they release their goods.
So be very careful. So it is. I do not know where you have purchased your ticket. You can purchase it from Grace of God Mission. All of them are air travel agencies.
Are they not preaching rapture which they think is translation? Rapture does not mean translation of the mortal body. Rapture does not mean catching you away. Rapture means Peace. In Christ, we have Peace. In the world, we have troubles.
I am preaching the translation of our mortal bodies.That is what I am preaching. I am not preaching Rapture. Rapture is already in the Message.
My Peace I give unto you. My Peace I leave with you. Not the type of peace the world giveth, but the Peace that comes from above. The peace that endures to all generations.
Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.] [John 14:27 AMP]
Greater Peace have they that know the Lord. And nothing shall, by any means, offend them. And there is no Peace with the wicked. There is no peace with the ungodly. Is it not the Word of God?
Great peace have they who love Your law; nothing shall offend them or make them stumble. [Psalms 119:165 AMP]
There is no peace, says the Lord, for the wicked. [Isaiah 48:22. Also found in Isaiah 57:21] AMP
So what I am preaching is translation of our mortal flesh. Hence, I do not preach the crucified Christ.
I preach the Resurrected Christ, for He has resurrected in My life. He has resurrected in your lives. He came back from the world of the dead, giving us hope.
If we remain in Him, abiding in His Word, even if we die, we shall also come back to life.We will resurrect and we will put on the same body He put on when He came out from the grave, for the grave never held Him captive.
Yes!When that Sovereign Spirit is dwelling in you and also dwelling in Me, even if we die in this flesh, we are coming back with our theophany bodies, Sure and certain!
If we remain alive till that D-day He has promised, which is around the corner, truly speaking, the living will fulfill prophecies.
This is because the prophecy said, “We shall not all die. Many of us who are hearing the Word shall not all die. We shall remain alive and be translated in a twinkling of an eye.”
52In a moment, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, at the [sound of the] last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead [in Christ] will be raised imperishable (free and immune from decay), and WE SHALL BE CHANGED (TRANSFORMED). [1 Corinthians 15:52 AMP]
Our translation will never hinder the resurrection of those who died before us in Christ, for they will resurrect first. And we that are alive shall be transformed in a moment of an eye.
In a twinkling of an eye, all of us wearing Glorious Bodies. Together, we join with them and sing Alleluia! With the Elohim in the Cloud, for the Cloud will reveal us.
The Cloud will also receive us because, from the Cloud, we will be appearing and disappearing. And the Cloud is not coming from anywhere. The Cloud is already here, for God is here.
We can say like Jacob, “So God is here and I know it not. So I have play-play, play-play stumbled into the Home of God, The awful entrance to Heaven” Alleluia!
16And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. 17And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. [Genesis 28:16 – 17 KJV]
Very awful entrance to Heaven. Marriage can bring you into it. Anything can bring you into the Home of God. And that is when you are ordained for Salvation.
For God cannot bring you into His Home to destroy you. No! I do not believe that God will bring Me into His Home to destroy Me. No! No! No! I do not believe in that.
When He revealed Himself to Manoah and the wife, Manoah who was skeptical about the whole thing. Believing the Old Testament’s erroneous belief, he thought he would die and the family exterminated, “Oh! Our eyes have seen Jehovah. We have seen God.”
The wife said “Man, take it easy. If God will kill us, He would not showcase Himself. He manifested Himself. He accepted our offering. He accepted our freewill offering. How can He kill us?
21The Angel of the Lord did not appear again to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the Angel of the Lord. 22And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
23But his [sensible] wife said to him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, He would not have received a burnt offering and a cereal offering from our hands, nor have shown us all these things or now have announced such things as these.[Judges 13:21 – 23 AMP]
He now gave them a wonderful promise which fulfilled in their day, and which was the essence of the visitation, using the promise and also using the convincing sign [Oh!] of what happened to the offering they placed. It was that sign.
It was that demonstration that made them to know that it is no longer an old man that visited them, but that this is God.
The same thing. It was the demonstration of His Power that convinced Jacob that he never wrestled with a man but with God and that it was not only in Bethel under the shade of a tree. No!
Jacob realized that overnight, he passed the night with God and he did not die. Can you imagine!
That was why when Isaiah saw His face, he said, “Woe is me for I am undone. A man of unclean lips, and I am living in the midst of unclean people for my eyes have seen the Almighty God, Jehovah, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, and I did not die.”
4And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5Then said I, Woe is me! For I am undone and ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts![Isaiah 6:4 – 5 AMP]
Moses spoke to Him face to face, mouth to mouth, and He did not die.
8With him I speak mouth to mouth [directly], clearly and not in dark speeches; and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses? [Numbers 12:8 AMP]
Tell Me who came to Him face to face and died? It was only those who disobeyed, and who, after knowing Him, molded a golden image, a semblance of God, contrary to His order.
Number one was Aaron. Aaron after knowing God, moulded an image. He moulded something that is lifeless, and attributed it to the Living God.
3So all the people took the gold rings from their ears and brought them to Aaron. 4And he received the gold at their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it a molten calf; and they said, These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt! [Exodus 32:3 – 4 AMP]
Aaron paid for it and all that went awhoring by following their own human devised ways, [Oh!] going through other agencies other than the right agency that is authorized to issue valid tickets. Hallelujah!
27And Moses did as the Lord commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. 28And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount. [Numbers 20:27 – 28 KJV]
Is your ticket valid? Has it been validated? Because after issuing you the ticket it must be validated. True or false?
Wherever you are having transactions where validation is needed [oh! Glory be to God], number one is that you must be captured, your photograph[of the owner of ticket; the holder of the ticket].
Validation begins by capturing your photograph so that you can no longer be denied. I am holding an infallible evidence. Amen!
You have no reasonable excuse to give as far as the present stage of the Ministry is concerned. God has revealed His invisible nature and we have seen it. We are sure and certain, what God displayed in our midst was His invisible nature. Right from the beginning of Creation, God has manifested it in diverse ways.
THOU ART INEXCUSABLE BEFORE GOD; Preached on 19th September 2002 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 127 vs. 15 – 21
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THE CONVINCING DEMONSTRATIONS OF GOD [2]
THE ESSENCE OF REMINDING US OF ALL THESE THINGS IS FOR US TO USE THIS LAST MINUTE REVIVAL; THIS LAST MINUTE SPIRITUAL REAWAKENING, GOD HAS INITIATED WITH THE INTENT TO BRING BACK THE ERRING SHEEP THAT HAVE WANDERED AWAY, IF THEY ARE STILL WITHIN THE REACH WHERE GOD’S LOVE AND GRACE CAN REACH OUT AND BRING THEM BACK.
Let them go back to the very beginning, and find out the series of many convincing demonstrations of God to prove His Power and to prove Himself sure, certain and dependable.
Let them go back and see whether they could remember any unquestionable evidence out of the unquestionable evidences. Evidences!
Let them go back and see whether they could remember even one and then hold on to one. Hold on to one. Convincing demonstrations. Hold on to at least one or two.
It might be the one that happened to you or somebody else, and you were there and you saw it. Now, look at the infallible proofs.
Even if you do not have any, do you not know about the prophecies? How many prophecies have been fulfilled before our eyes? Who prophesied? What anointing did the Prophet use to prophesy? I mean, THUS SAYS THE LORD which you say cannot fail, for THUS SAYS THE LORD can never fail.
Tell Me any that has ever failed, and I will show you series of fulfillments. True or false? I mean, we have indisputable proofs and indisputable facts which we can lay hold on and then run back to Him.
As I thought on My ways, I ran back to Him. I made haste to go on My knees and said “Father, I have sinned. I am sorry. Receive me back to Yourself as a prodigal child. Give me the position of a servant, instead of casting me away.”
SONG:[Create in Me a new heart, O Lord, and renew right Spirit within Me. Create in Me a new heart, O Lord, and renew right Spirit within Me. Oh Lord! Cast Me not away from Your Presence oh Lord. Take not Thy Holy Spirit from Me, My God. Restore unto Me the Joy of My Salvation, and renew right Spirit within Me.] Psalms 51:10-12
SONG: [In thee Oh Lord, I put My trust. In thee Oh Lord, I put My trust. O Lord, fail Me not. In thy Kingdom, fail Me not. In thy Kingdom, fail Me not. In thy Kingdom, fail Me not.]
I want to back up this My exhortations with Scriptures that will help you to be meditating on what you have heard. Do not allow them to slip off your heart or to slip off your mind. Amen!
Remember the Message “DO NOT FORGET WHAT YOUR EYES HAVE SEEN, YOUR EARS HAVE HEARD, YOUR MOUTHS PROCLAIMED TO BE THE TRUTH, LEST YOU SIN AGAINST GOD, for no child of God goes into error until he forgets what God has already proclaimed!”
I want to have Living Bible and Amplified only because, I am handing over to the Evangelist who booked the Pulpit for two weeks now but I have not given him the opportunity.
I want us to read the Scriptures which I believe will help us meditate. Let us repeat the Gospel according to saint Luke chapter 1, from verse 1 through 3.
Luke 1:1-3 Amplified version.1Since [as is well known] many have undertaken to put in order and draw up a [thorough] narrative of the surely established deeds which have been accomplished and fulfilled in and among us.
2Exactly as they were handed down to us by those who from the [official beginning [of Jesus’ ministry] were eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word [that is, of the doctrine concerning the attainment through Christ of Salvation in the kingdom of God].
3It seemed good and desirable to me, [and so I have determined] also after having searched out diligently and followed all things closely and traced accurately the course from the highest to the minutest detail from the very first, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus.
4[My purpose is] that [1] you may know the full truth and [2] understand with certainty and [3] security against error the accounts (histories) and doctrines of the faith of which you have been informed and in which you have been orally instructed.
Take note! Many wrote from what they gathered from eye witnesses who were there with the Lord Jesus Christ from the very beginning. They were not there. They heard the reports from those who were there.
Now, there was one who was there live from the very official beginning. He looked into whatever they documented. Though they were truth, but they were haphazardly placed. They were not convincingly placed as it took place.
Being a Medical Doctor by profession [that is Dr. Luke the Apostle] who was there live maintaining quietness and watching events, He took it upon himself, diligently searched, compared, and accurately placed it in writing as a narrative to his son Theophilus.
[1] To guide him against error. [2] For his security.
THAT IS WHY, THIS FAITH IS OUR SECURITY. IF WE PROTECT OUR FAITH FROM ERROR AND FROM COMPROMISE, SURELY THIS FAITH WILL PROTECT US.
ANY DAY WE COMPROMISE IT FOR BASE GAIN, SELFISH GAIN OR FOR ANY OTHER CONSIDERATION, WE COMPROMISE THIS FAITH, WE MUST SURELY LOSE OUR SECURITY. WE MUST SURELY LOSE OUR SECURITY, AND WE MUST GO INTO ERROR.
As one who was there from the very official beginning, he documented events from the least to the highest detail, or from the greatest to the minutest detail all that transpired within that period. Alleluia!
The same way saint Paul guided Timothy, guided Titus and many others against error and for their security as well.
Note what he was saying. The teachings and doctrines of Jesus Christ as per salvation, which will come from no other but from the Faith established in his doctrine.
For that reason, Saint Paul encouraged Timothy to teach that which is sound doctrine at all times, noting that by so doing, he will save his own life and the lives of them that will hear him, for one single false doctrine will destroy the whole world.
When you fire atomic bomb, many people will die, but not everybody. Only those that will come into contact with it will die.
But with one single false doctrine injected into the world, the world is like this today. What was that single word? Thou shall not! The devil injected “NOT” in Genesis.
God said, “Any day you disbelieve Me or disobey Me and eat the fruit from this tree, you must surely die. My intention is to live with you forever, but any day you have this tree eaten, you will die.”
The devil came, “Did God say when you eat, you will not die? Are you stupid? Don’t you know that the tree is where God is drawing His wisdom? Don’t you know that that is where eternity from God begins?
You do not want to be like God? God does not want to have a competitor. He does not want to have a rival. Woman! Let me just show you how it is eaten. Thou shall not die! Eat it, I am here.” And she ate.
The husband came back. She introduced the thing to the husband and the husband ate as well.
Did they die? The answer is YES. That was how iniquity came into this world through Adam. Through Adam, all died, for sin entered into the world. Unbelief, disobedience entered into the world through the sin of Adam and Eve. One family.
1NOW THE serpent was more subtle and crafty than any living creature of the field which the Lord God had made. And he [Satan] said to the woman, Can it really be that God has said, you shall not eat from every tree of the garden?
2And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit from the trees of the garden, 3 Except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, you shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.
4But the serpent said to the woman, you shall NOT surely die,5For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing the difference between good and evil and blessing and calamity. [Genesis 3:1-5]
And then through one man also who was adjudged righteous, that is Jesus the Christ. God picked Him as the only righteous fellow who could place His life on the cross.
That is God becoming a human being to pay the penalty for that sin and introduce right living and also introduce obedience.
[15]And what a difference between man’s sin and God’s forgiveness! For this one man, Adam, brought death to many through his sin. But this one man, Jesus Christ, brought forgiveness to many through God’s mercy.
[16]Adam’s one sin brought the penalty of death to many, while Christ freely takes away many sins and gives glorious life instead. [Romans 5:15-16 LB]
That is why the Bible recorded it in His favour. Christ, having obeyed the Father, became the author of Eternal Salvation unto those who will obey Him, not those that will disobey.
8though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; 9and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; [Hebrews 5:8 – 9 KJV]
THEN THIS FAITH IS OUR SECURITY. DO WE BELIEVE THAT? WHEN YOU DESTROY THE FAITH BY CORRUPTING IT WITH WRONG DOCTRINE AND FALSE LIFE, DOUBT AND UNBELIEF, THIS FAITH WILL DESTROY YOU. AMEN!
Timothy was properly guided, like Theophilus was properly guided. I am guiding all of you now against error. Saint Luke was there from the very official beginning. Am I making sense?
And we must believe his account which is very accurate, for it was purely verified. This is so that anybody holding unto it will be eternally secured from eternal punishment, and will be fully furnished unto good works. True or false?
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. [2 Timothy 3:16 KJV]
The essence of furnishing you with right teaching, right doctrine, is so that you might be fully equipped for every good works.
This is because you cannot live a life higher than the teachings you are receiving, the doctrines you are receiving and the instructions that are given to you in righteousness by no other person, but God En-Morphe. Amen!
I AM WHAT I AM. Believing Me does not add anything to Me. Disbelieving Me adds nothing; it removes nothing,……. The Resurrected Body is alive and will remain alive forevermore. (Selah). He is the same Voice, the same Spirit, the same Christ coming to round off the program. He is no longer walking in the midst of the seven candle sticks, but coming here, live! He never sent anybody, but He sent Himself. Because He has revealed His Original Body. What else do you want?
FIVE-FOLD WORSHIP EXPLAINED (OFFERING IS AN ACT OF WORSHIP); Preached on Sunday 16th August 2017; Pg. 103 vs. 56 & Pg. 130 vs. 9 – 10
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WHAT TYPE OF EVIDENCE ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
Now look at the second account. We want to corroborate it in Acts of the Apostles documented by the same saint Luke in chapter one. We read from verse one. He made mention of the documentary[the previous narrative] he gave.
Acts 1:1-6 (AMP); In the former account… note! In the former account. [Which I prepared], O Theophilus,…With this, is anybody in doubt as to the writer of Acts of the Apostles?
It is quite unlike the Book of Hebrews which people say was written by saint Paul, but I know it is not saint Paul. Even Hebrew scholars write to the unknown author.
They ascribe the authorship to unknown author simply because of the missionary accounts of saint Paul and the references he made to Hebrews. People now began to think that he was the writer.
I know the writer. The writer is not saint Paul. It was not even written in Rome. Neither was it written in Jerusalem.
I have the Dead Sea scroll, the compendium, so I know how Hebrew book came into existence.
The Book of Hebrews is the original writing of the Almighty God that we are holding till today. It is one of the original write-ups direct from the Elohim.
That is the only place where you can see the Priesthood revisited as it was in the old order. The outer court, the inner court, the Holy of Holies.
When you read Hebrew 9, you will notice it. You will equally see the fulfillment of the prophecy of Jeremiah where God said a day cometh where He will remove the laws for finding faults with the laws.
You will see in Hebrew 9 too where God has removed the Leviticus Priesthood. The only book that can give a chronological account of what it took to remove the Leviticus Priesthood.
9One might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham, 10because when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the body of his ancestor.
11If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the law was given to the people), why was there still need for another priest to come–one in the orderof Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron?
12For when there is a change of the priesthood, there must also be a change of the law.13He of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever served at the altar. [Hebrews 7:9 – 13 NIV]
So keep it there, I am not in a haste but I will show you something when we get there. Trust God.
WHAT IS MY AIM? MY AIM IS THAT YOU WILL KNOW THE FULL TRUTH AND NOT HALF-TRUTH BECAUSE EVERY HALF-TRUTH IS A LIE.
That is what saint Luke was telling Theophilus, that you may know the full truth, so that you will not be buffeted about by every wind of doctrine.
You will not be following the errors of the wicked who might be declaring “THUS SAITH THE LORD”, when the Lord never spoke to them just like we now have too many air ticket offices as agencies that are not authenticated. All of them illegal.
Then when you purchase your ticket from an illegal office, and go to the validation office, they will turn you back.
I am touching on it because I have a dream here, and that dream we will balance it from the Scriptures. When you go to the book of Joel. I think Joel chapter two. God said in the last days, our elderly people will be having dreams while the young ones will be seeing visions.
28And afterward I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. [Joel 2:28 AMP]
And I will show you that visions are now reaching us from children aged 9, 10, 11, and they are all Scriptural. Some of them are fulfilling even right now.
So I want to engrave all of them in tapes today because if we were having a central fellowship, dreams are made public, for God spoke, “Now you will not hear “THUS SAYS THE LORD” again”, when He reveals the Elohim in human form.
He said, “I have reverted to the ancient way [old way] talking to you through dreams and then talking to you through the Spoken Word and then using the written word as a reference point. Is it not true?
From that day have we heard “THUS SAYS THE LORD” again? Who has ever been anointed to prophesy?
You heard the testimony of Sister Joe [Bishop Joe Ukpong’s wife], who was one of the prophetesses. She said even the anointing, everything vanished.
WHAT TYPE OF EVIDENCE ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? WE HAVE PERSONAL EVIDENCES. WE HAVE COLLECTIVE EVIDENCES. WE HAVE FAMILY EVIDENCES.
In every sphere of life, God has evidenced Himself, even in your academics, in your schools, and in your colleges. At any level, God evidencing and showing series of many convincing demonstrations. All to prove that He exists. He is.
6And without faith it is impossible to please God, BECAUSE ANYONE WHOCOMES TO HIM MUST BELIEVE THAT HEEXISTS and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him. [Hebrews 11:6 NIV]
He exists, demonstrating His power through healing and through forgiveness of sin, which is the greatest miracle, bringing you into the knowledge of the truth, reforming and refining you, giving you a believing heart to believe the truth, and giving you the Grace to follow His footsteps.
IS THERE ANY MIRACLE GREATER THAN THAT? MAKING A SINNER A SAINT. CREATING THE DESIRE TO WORSHIP GOD IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH IN YOU. IS IT MAN-MADE?
You were afar off, wallowing in ignorance and in darkness, not having any hope of eternal life, not having any regard for God. Eternal life was never in your program. True or false?
Who could perform this miracle that today that you cannot live without hearing from Him nor without reading at least a passage.
Who created the desire in you? Alleluia! The Lord is good! He is worthy to be worshipped. Alleluia!
Look at the account in the Acts of the Apostles chapter 1 from verse 1.
Acts 1:1-6 [AMP]In the former account [which I prepared], O Theophilus, I made [a continuous report]…I made what? A continuous report…
In that account, he made a continuous report, for the Message was not to them that were there alone, but to them that were afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. [Acts 2:31 KJV]
This is your own time. Has it not been extended to us? Alleluia!
What else is the convincing demonstration of His Power to save even to the utmost, for He is able to save to the utmost all that will come to Him through Christ?
If not the continuous nature of the account, how do you think Christ would have been revealed to the Gentiles? How do you think we would have been privileged from the sacrifice He made on the Cross of Calvary? Is it not by extension of His grace? Alleluia!
In every nation, in every place, in every family, whosoever, in all the four corners of the earth, whosoever that feareth, obeyeth and honoureth the Lord, the same is the Word of salvation sent to.
Acts of the Apostles 10:35. Quodscripsi, scripsi. What is written is written. Amen!
35but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. [KJV]
35But in every nation he who venerates and has a reverential fear for God, treating Him with worshipful obedience and living uprightly, is acceptable to Him and sure of being received and welcomed [by Him]. [AMP]
35but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right. [NIV]
35Those who fear him and do what is right are acceptable to him, no matter what race they belong. [GNB]
35In every nation, He has those who worship Him and do good deeds and are acceptable to Him. [LB]
The Word of salvation has been sent to us because we have fulfilled it. We fear, we revere, we honour, we worship, and we obey the Lord.
Then He searched out in Nigeria, in Igbo land, and He found this Family worthy and He entered, for He was going about knocking at the door. Whoever that opened, He entered and began to eat and drink with them. Even now, He has resurrected from the dead. Alleluia!
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. [Revelations 3:20 AMP]
He never regarded it as robbery veiling Himself in a Man that He may enter families with His blessings.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: [Philippians 2:5 – 6 KJV]
When He entered, He said, “Peace be unto you.” And He also told the Apostles, “Go! While preaching the gospels, any family you get to their gate and they refuse to open, turn away. Stamp out the dust on your feet for it shall be better that they were not born, and that Sodom and Gomorrah will be better than that family.” Is it not scripture?
“Anywhere you go and knock and they allow you in, enter, preach the Word, eat and drink with them and wish them God’s peace. Peace be unto this family. And immediately, God will honour it.
In the day of God’s visitation in His wrath and anger, that family had already been marked for salvation.” We have been marked for salvation, and not for destruction.
11″Whatever town or village you enter, search for some worthy person there and stay at his house until you leave.12As you enter the home, give it your greeting.
13If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. 14If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.
15I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.[Matthew 10: 12 – 15 KJV]
Because they noted every family they entered and they were not allowed in, they noted it. Amen.
EVERY FLESH MUST BE PRIVILEGED TO HEAR THIS WORD. IF YOU RECEIVE IT, GOD WILL MARK YOU GOOD. IF YOU REJECT IT, GOD WILL MARK YOU BAD.
HE THAT IS HAVING DEALINGS WITH US IS GOD. LET ME ANNOUNCE IT TO YOU. ON THE DAY WE WERE ASKED TO COME, THE VOICE SAID, “COME AND SEE HE THAT HAS BEEN HAVING DEALINGS WITH YOU ALL THESE YEARS.” WHEN WE CAME, WE DID NOT SEE BROTHER ODOEMENA. WE SAW GOD. SO HE THAT HAS BEEN MOVING IN OUR MIDST, HAVING DEALINGS WITH US ALL THESE YEARS, IS NO OTHER PERSON BUT GOD. I AM SURE. I AM CERTAIN ABOUT IT. IF YOU ARE NOT SURE, WELL, GO AND PRAY. BUT I AM SURE. DOUBLY SURE.
I CAN DO NOTHING OF MYSELF; Preached on Sunday 31st December 2000; Pg. 123 vs. 55 – 56
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HAVE FAITH IN GOD
Acts 1:1 – 3 (AMP). 1In the former account [which I prepared], O Theophilus, I made [a continuous report] dealing with all the things which Jesus began to do and to teach… Which he began to do and to teach concerning salvation.
2 Until the day when He ascended, after He through the Holy Spirit had instructed and commanded the apostles (special messengers) whom He had chosen.
Special messengers whom He had chosen and who later failed Him for they never took Him serious. They were skeptical. They were filled with doubts. They were filled with unbelief.
Notable among them was Peter, who later became a devil and a temptation to the Master, and which he could not bear.
Yet, in spite of all his accounts and all his testimonies, when the Master was seen no more, he led them back to his former association and re-integrated them with the Jewish laws. With the Jewish laws.
19“It is my opinion,” James went on, “that we should not trouble the Gentiles who are turning to God. 20Instead, we should write a letter telling them not to eat any food that is ritually unclean because it has been offered to idols; to keep themselves from sexual immorality; and not to eat any animal that has been strangled, or any blood.
21FOR THE LAW OF MOSES HAS BEEN READ FOR A VERY LONG TIME IN THE SYNAGOGUES EVERY SABBATH, AND HIS WORDS ARE PREACHED IN EVERY TOWN.”
22Then the apostles and the elders, together with the whole church, decided to choose some men from the group and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose two men who were highly respected by the believers, Judas, called Barsabbas, and Silas, [Acts 15:19 – 22 GNB]
And then incited opposition against those who were still holding on to the Faith. Notably was Paul and the young men who rallied round Paul for all the ancient men had already backslidden.
All the ancient men who were with him, even Barnabas who introduced him to the Apostles, had already gone back to Cyprus, joining John Mark to do business and the world swallowed them.
Look at Demas. He said, “Demas has left me and has entered into the world. I am only here with Luke, Theophilus, Timothy, Titus and a few others.” Young, young boys!
9Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: 10for Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. [2 Timothy 4:9 – 10 KJV]
Where were the ancient men? Look at James. Look at John. Who were politicians. The Master was about to leave them in sorrow and in pain, but their own desire was not to pray with him for one hour, including Peter.
They went and brought their mother to come and solicit favour, that whenever the Master would go, John would be on the right hand side, James on the left. Then the rest, what would happen to them? Politicians!
20Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him. 21″What is it you want?” he asked. She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.” [Matthew 20:20 – 21 NIV]
What will it profit you if you become a witness of translation only to go and tell others what happened? Who will like to be that? You will go and tell others that the Saints have gone, who believed what you believed.
It happened to Elisha. Elisha witnessed the catching away of Elijah. The sons of the Prophets knew about it. They knew the day, knew the date, they knew the hour.
They even reminded Elisha, “Do you know that your Master will leave today?” He said, “I know more than that.”
Then, instead of requesting the he should go with the Master, he was looking for power, to demonstrate like the Master. “I want double portion of your anointing. I want to call heaven down.”
You did not want to go with your Master for the Master said, “If you will graciously, steadfastly, immovably cling unto me, following me till the day I will go out. Whatever you want to request, request it there and it shall be granted.” Oh!
3The prophets’ sons who were at Bethel came to Elisha and said, Do you know that the Lord will take your master away from you today? He said, Yes, I know it; hold your peace. …….
5The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came to Elisha and said, Do you know that the Lord will take your master away from you today? And he answered, Yes, I know it; hold your peace. …….
9And when they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for you before I am taken from you. And Elisha said, I pray you, let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.
10He said, You have asked a hard thing. However, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you–but if not, it shall not be so.11As they still went on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire parted the two of them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. 12And Elisha saw it and he cried, My father, my father! The chariot of Israel and its horsemen! And he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces. [2 Kings 2:3, 5, 11 – 12 AMP]
Just like I told Bro John Onyia this morning, how faith is created. Christ said and I quote, “If you abide in Me and My Words abide in you, ask whatsoever you will, and it shall be granted unto you, for with God, all things are possible.”
I AM THE LORD, THE GOD OF ALL FLESH. IS THERE ANYTHING IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO DO? He said, “Nay! For with God, that which is impossible with men is made possible.”
SONG – Got any rivers you think are uncrossable? Got any mountain you cannot tunnel through? My God specializes in things thought impossible, and He will do what no other power can do.
Amen! He is a God of impossibility. For with Him, all things are possible. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing the Word.
17So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself). [Romans 10:17 AMP]
Can you imagine? We are privileged to be given a blank cheque. You know what a blank cheque is? And it is tied to our obedience to His Word.
And that is, if I will abide in God and God will abide in me. How do I abide in God? By believing Him, taking Him at His Word, and doing everything at His Word. Then I am on His right hand.
If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you can ask whatsoever you will. Has it any limit? You can even speak to the dead and he will come back to life. You can change the situation. You can change your condition. You can change your direction. You can re-shape even your future.
Because, you are given a blank cheque, all you have to do is to write the amount you want. But you must make sure, it is not a feeling oran imagination, but that the Word of God is abiding in you and you are also abiding in God.
IN THIS WAY, YOU AND THE WORD HAVE BECOME ONE. YOU DO NOT DO ANYTHING OUTSIDE THE WORD. YOU DO NOT REASON OUTSIDE THE WORD. YOU DO NOT THINK OUTSIDE THE WORD. YOU DO NOT TALK OUTSIDE THE WORD. YOU DO NOT REST OUTSIDE THE WORD. YOU DO NOT DO ANYTHING OUTSIDE THE WORD, FOR WITHOUT THE WORD, YOU DO NOTHING.
That is why you are the true Bride, for if it is not “Thus saith the Lord”, you can never move. You are always interested in knowing God’s mind concerning any matter before you indulge in it.
Others might be talking and suggesting, but your desire will be, “What has God said on this matter?” When He speaks, that is final, is it not true?
SONG – When the day is dark before you, and the clouds are hanging low, there is One who watches over you, everywhere that you may go. Saviour is the one, yes, He is the only One, let Him have His way until the day is done; when he speaks, you know the clouds will have to go, just because he loves you so.
SONG- Just another touch Lord from You, to help in hard trials I go through. Though dark may be the night, you’ve sent a ray of hope, when I get another touch love from You.
The Cloud is presently here. Another touch! Have faith in God! Have faith in God! Anything can fail you, but faith can never fail you. Faith expressed in Jehovah causes things to happen.
You can say to the mountain, “Get away from my sight”, and the mountain will obey you immediately. It is not a miracle. This is the demonstration of the Gospel of Christ. The power that is in the Word of God. Amen! Halleluiah!
3 To them also He showed Himself alive after His passion (His suffering in the garden and on the cross)…He showed Himself what? Alive! …after His passion.
After His way of doing things. He is an expert in showcasing Himself. Did He not do it from the beginning?
When He fetched them, they were with their father, Zebedee. James and John, then Peter. He selected the three. Is it not true? By a sign.
They fished all the night, but they came back empty-handed. They met a young man at the seashore. He was a young man that time, who demonstrating the power that is embedded in Him, said, “Cast your net.”
They were about to go home disappointed. He said, “No. Cast your net by the right hand; at the shallow side of the river.” What happened? They could not pull it out.
He said, “Okay, drop them. Now from this day, I will make you fishers of men, if only you will follow Me.” Halleluiah! The Bible said, “They forsook their father and followed him. Amen!
16Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.17And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
18And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him. And when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.
20And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him. [Mark 1:16 – 20 KJV]
They witnessed all these things. Convincing evidences. Series of them. Convincing demonstrations of His power and of who He is. They were sure. That was why Peter said, “We were eye witnesses. We were there.”
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. [2 Peter 1:16 KJV]
All of them were saying the same thing. But at the end of the day, oh! Can you imagine? What happened to their fathers in the wilderness happened to them again.
Their fathers witnessed all those things in the wilderness. Were they not the people that crossed the Red Sea? Were they not the people that were fed with manna from on high, protected from dying in the wilderness?
1I want you to remember, my friends, what happened to our ancestors who followed Moses. THEY WERE ALL UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE CLOUD, AND ALL PASSED SAFELY THROUGH THE RED SEA. 2In the cloud and in the sea they were all baptized as followers of Moses. 3All ate the same spiritual bread 4and drank the same spiritual drink. THEY DRANK FROM THE SPIRITUAL ROCK THAT WENT WITH THEM; AND THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST HIMSELF. [1 Corinthians 10:1 – 4 GNB]
Who was giving them that protection? Was it not the Almighty God?
When they were bitten by snake, God healed them. They never paid for their food. Their clothes never went thread-bare. Not one of their cattle died. They never buried even a single child in the wilderness. For forty years. Can you imagine?
God kept them from sinning. Can you imagine? Two million people, sinning against God only but ten times in 40 years.
Who prevented them from sinning against Him? That is God. That was why when they erred, they said, “O Lord our God, why have you permitted us to err?”
17O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. [Isaiah 63: 17 KJV]
He tested them so that they would know their human side, so that if by tomorrow they are saved, they will never say they got the Land of Canaan by their power.
For they never got the Land by their power. It was the Lord God Almighty who paved a way for them. But those who could not believe in His power, and could not believe in the demonstrations, their experiences fizzled out.
What happened? They denied God and started moulding images. Do you know what image means? Something that resembles; a replica.
Something that resembles something. Is it the thing? Cocoyam is like yam, but is it yam? Man is like woman, but is he woman? Amen!
So do not make any semblance of God, God is unique. God is one. God is eternal. Halleluiah! They were eye witnesses even when he came back from the dead.
3To them also He showed Himself alive after His passion (His suffering in the garden and on the cross) by [A SERIES OF] MANY CONVINCING DEMONSTRATIONS…
We have [a series of] many convincing demonstrations which we are here to testify.
From 1992, December 30 till today, there is nobody who has followed from the very beginning and those who joined on the way that has not been privileged to see, I mean, supernatural occurrences among us.
God demonstrating His power through all those amazing things. Amazing things! Some of them seem unbelievable. Yet, they are true. Amen!
That is where we rest our Faith and then crown it with the infallible Word, because all of them dovetailed to the Word.
Though God will come, perform signs and wonders and all those supernatural occurrences, we will wait in the Word, for if there be anything, if it does not agree with the Word and the Prophecy, it is because it contains no truth.
That is why; the things that have been happening among us are nothing but fulfillment of Prophecies. I mean, they are all scriptural and promised phenomena and not mere feeling nor imagination. Yes!
The Acts of the Apostles even said, “When they went about preaching, God was confirming the preaching with signs and wonders following.”
3So [Paul and Barnabas] stayed on there for a long time, speaking freely and fearlessly and boldly in the Lord, WHO CONTINUED TO BEAR TESTIMONY TO THE WORD OF HIS GRACE, GRANTING SIGNS AND WONDERS TO BE PERFORMED BY THEIR HANDS. [Acts 14:3 AMP]
17AND THESE SIGNS SHALL FOLLOW THEM THAT BELIEVE; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; [Mark 16:17 KJV]
That is why Children of God do not follow signs and wonders. Rather, signs and wonders follow Children of God, when they continue with the truth.
ANYBODY WHO IS ATTRACTED BY SIGNS AND WONDERS IS AN UNBELIEVER. SIGNS AND WONDERS ARE FOR THE UNBELIEVER.
The Word is for the Elect. That is why the Elect cannot be deceived. Through signs and wonders, Non-Elect can be deceived. Did you get the Message?
24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very Elect. [Matthew 24:24 KJV]
The non-Elect will take impersonation and drop the original. You can never see anything original in any Pentecostal. There is no denomination that holds the original.
THE ORIGINAL IS IN THE MIDST OF THE ELECT. THE ELECT-LADY. THE CHOSEN GROUP. HANDPICKED FROM ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. HALLELUIAH! UNITED IN THE GOD-HEAD.
And He is pulling all of them along. When the Godhead is moving, the entire Body is moving. Wherever the Head is, that is where the tail is. Did you get what I am saying?
Wherever the front of a car is, that is where the body of the car is. The front on the car cannot be positioned in a different location from the rest of the body.
Wherever the GodHead is, that is where the entire body is. Amen!
WHO CAN UNDERSTAND GOD? WE ARE NOT CALLED TO UNDERSTAND GOD. WE ARE CALLED TO BELIEVE HIM. IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND, YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE. NOBODY IS CALLED TO UNDERSTAND GOD. YOU ARE CALLED TO BELIEVE GOD. EVEN IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND, HE SAID, “BELIEVE ANYHOW.” IS IT GOD YOU CANNOT COMPREHEND THAT YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND? YOU WILL ONLY KNOW ME THE EXTENT I WANT YOU TO KNOW ME. THE EXTENT I PERMIT YOU TO KNOW ME, THAT YOU WILL KNOW. IF I DID NOT TELL YOU THAT I AM HE, WILL YOU KNOW? THAT YOU KNOW HIM, THOSE IN BENJAMIN, DO THEY KNOW HIM? IT IS ONLY RECENTLY THAT THEY HAVE STARTED CATCHING THE REVELATION.
Be careful about last minute manifestation of unbelief (follow me as i follow him [the cloud] reviewed); preached on sunday 8th september, 2013; pg. 73 vs. 19 – 21
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WE HAVE UNQUESTIONABLE EVIDENCES [1]
Acts 1:3 Amplified. 3TO THEM ALSO HE SHOWED HIMSELF ALIVE after His passion (His suffering in the garden and on the cross)…
And to us also, He invited to come and see the Resurrected Body. Were we disappointed? Were we not astonished? Were we not convinced that He was not merely making a human claim? The claim had already been substantiated with convincing proofs and convincing evidence. Halleluiah!
I mean, we have proved the Word. We have proved everything. We balanced everything, and then we subscribed to it. This is why we are ready to die in defense of what we believe. This is why it is impossible for an Elect to deny the truth that has been set out before his eyes. Amen!
3To them also He showed Himself alive after His passion (His suffering in the garden and on the cross) and on the cross) BY [A SERIES OF] MANY CONVINCING DEMONSTRATIONS [UNQUESTIONABLE EVIDENCES…
UNQUESTIONABLE EVIDENCES! NOT ONE; AND NOT TWO. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE UNQUESTIONABLE EVIDENCES, YOU HAVE NOT ENTERED INTO HIM.
YOU LACK EXPERIENCE BECAUSE YOU ARE THAT UNQUESTIONABLE EVIDENCE. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR UNQUESTIONABLE EVIDENCE, I AM THE ONE.
SONG: [I AM A LIVING TESTIMONY, praise the Lord. For what God has done, praise the Lord. I AM A LIVING EVIDENCE, praise the Lord. For what God has done, praise the Lord. I AM A CONVINCING SIGN, praise the Lord. For what God has done, praise the Lord.]
Evidence! Unquestionable! I say, unquestionable. You see why the Bible said, “All these things happen so that our Faith will not be resting on the mere words of men, but on the engrafted and infallible Word of His Promise.” Halleluiah!
4And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. [1 Corinthians 2:4 – 5 KJV]
WHERE ARE YOU RESTING YOUR FAITH? ANY FAITH THAT IS RESTING OUTSIDE, PLACED OUTSIDE ANYWHERE OTHER THAN HERE, IS A MISPLACED FAITH.
WHAT IS MY JOY? I AM NOT POSSESSING A MISPLACED FAITH. RATHER, I AM HOLDING AN AUTHENTICATED FAITH, CONFIRMED AND VALIDATED BY THE ALMIGHTY, AND STAMPED OKAY. STAMPED OKAY! THAT IS THE REVIVAL! THAT IS THE JOY!
SONG: [This sinful world can never hold me. Any moment, I will go. I have made my consecration. And I have my wedding garment on.]
[I am a new creation; I am a brand new man. Old things have passed away. I am born again. More than a conqueror, that is what I am. I am a new creation; I am a brand new man.]
That is the testimony. That is the infallible proof. That is the unquestionable evidences. Halleluiah! To God be the glory.
Why are all of you standing? I say, sit down, but you do not want to sit down again. Is it the anointing? The anointing that breaks every yoke is here. Halleluiah!
3To them also He showed Himself alive after His passion by [a series of] many convincing demonstrations [unquestionable evidences and infallible proofs], appearing to them during forty days and talking [to them] about the things of the kingdom of God.
And yet they did not die. They saw Him live. They ate and drank with Him. He spoke with them, within the forty days and forty nights. What was the basis of the falling away?
Instead of continuing because he told them, “Continue. Saviour said continues. I am going to my Father, by and by.”
He said, “I am going away to my Father. I am going to prepare a place for you after which I will come back, take you to Myself, for wherever I am, there you shall be.”
2In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. [John 14:2 – 3 KJV]
Comfort yourselves with the words. Preach the gospel in season and out of season. Preach from Jerusalem, to Judea, to Samaria, to the uttermost part of the earth.
Immediately he left, Peter gathered them, and they denominated. He took them back to their former association. I will show you the evidence.
4And while being in their company and eating with them… While doing what? … being in their company… Even when He had already resurrected from the dead, He said, “Touch me. Handle me. I have flesh and blood.”
SONG – God has been a man right from creation. In every generation, God has always been a man. In our own day, God is a man, talking to His people that they might be saved. What a wonderful thing, having Him in person, rejoicing with His Family, praise be to God.
Amen! I am not singing the way it is written in your Song Book. Halleluiah!
SONG: [O Son of Man, You are my consolation. Even till this day, there is none like you. O SON OF MAN, You are the Pride of the Bride. Even till this day, there is none like you.]
[Who can be likened unto Thee. No one. No one! Who can be likened unto Thee. I say, No one. No one!]
Halleluiah! God is mysterious. Without controversy, great and weighty is the mystery of God, for God has come down in human form as He promised. That He will come in the form of a man to be born of a woman and be called The Son of Man in the area called Afik, in one of the jungles in Africa. And look at His age, look at everything. The last hope of the Gentiles.
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. [1 Timothy 3:16 KJV]
According to the MESSAGE FOR MUSLIMS – THE SECOND COMING; Question and answers about the second coming of Christ which are held by orthodox Muslims, “WHAT DO THE QUR’AN COMMENTATORS SAY ABOUT HIS RETURN? According to Al-Baidawi (renowned Quran commentator d. 685 A.H.) ’He (Christ) will descend in the Holy Land at a place called Afik…’” [www.message4muslims.org.uk]
… NO MATTER WHAT I DO, IT’S AFRICA FIRST, ‘CAUSE YOU’VE GOT TO DO IT. THERE LAYS GOD’S ETERNAL WORD LAYING THERE. I knew better than that. But I’ve got to go back. And I feel that this coming year is the time I’ll crawl out of the shell by the help of the Lord. [HEBREWS, CHAPTER 7 (SERIES, PART 1 of 2) by William Branham; Preached on Sunday evening, 15th September 1957 at the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana; Pg. 295 vs. 47]
HE WILL BE SENT WHEN HE IS BETWEEN 30 AND 40. The Mahdi is one of my children. HE IS AROUND 40. (Al-Haythami, Al-Qawl Al-Mukhtasar, P. 41)
From Yahya ibn Nufal, indeed Musa ibn Ja’afar (as) raise his hands and supplicates after Asr prayer, I inquire from him saying, to whom did you offer prayer for? He said: to Al-Mahdi among the family of Muhammad (saas) and said: HE IS HAVING BIG STOMACH, HIS EYEBROW VERY CLOSE, HIS LEGS ARE VERY ENERGETIC, HIS SHOULDER IS WIDE (Bihar al-Anwar: 86-81).
Humran bin A’yân says: To Imam Muhammad Bakir: “… YOUR LORD HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) WILL HAVE A WIDE STOMACH …” (Sheikh Muhammad bin Ibrahim Nomani, al-Ghaybah al-Nomani p. 253).
HE [HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] IS A YOUNG MAN OF MEDIUM STATURE and WITH A BEAUTIFUL FACE … THE RADIANCE OF HIS FACE SHINES LIKE DAY IN HIS HAIR, BEARD, AND THE BLACKNESS OF HIS HEAD, AND GIVES HIM GREATNESS.(Al-Uqayli, Al-Najmu Al-Saqib).
“I must tell you of the angel and the coming gift. I shall never forget the time, May 7, 1946, a very beautiful season of the year in Indiana. “Where I was still working as a game warden. ……..
Now coming through the light, I SAW THE FEET OF A MAN COMING TOWARDS ME, as naturally as you would walk to me. HE APPEARED TO BE A MAN WHO, IN HUMAN WEIGHT WOULD WEIGH ABOUT TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, CLOTHED IN A WHITE ROBE. HE HAS A SMOOTH FACE, NO BEARD, DARK HAIR DOWN TO HIS SHOULDERS, RATHER DARK-COMPLEXIONED, WITH A VERY PLEASANT COUNTENANCE, and coming closer, his eyes caught with mine. Seeing how fearful I was, HE BEGAN TO SPEAK. “FEAR NOT…” [WILLIAM BRAHAM: A MAN SENT BY GOD by Gordon Lindsay, Page 76]
If you miss this great salvation that is being offered us in this last dispensation when the whole world is now in apostasy; when there is great falling away from the original Faith, even from among us; Those who believed in the beginning are no longer believing because they are time-programmed believers.
They could program God, but they could not program the devil. They gave God a specific time, but the devil has the rest of the time with them; That is how we know them. When they wait for some time, they fall away when their expectations are not materializing;
They do not know that we are serving the God of patience. You must be patient with God. You have need of patience, for it is when your obedience is fulfilled, that you will get the promise.
They left, even when their obedience was not fulfilled; when they had not even started. They were still asleep; They were still sleeping. They woke up and got confused. Then they went home. Halleluiah!
YOU HAVE TO REDEEM THE TIME BRETHREN. I SAY, REDEEM THE TIME FOR THE DAYS ARE FULL OF EVIL.
BUT YOU ARE NOT IN THE DARK. YOU ARE NOT IN THE DARK. YOU ARE LIVING IN THE LIGHT, FOR HE IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
And that Light of the world is shining forth from this Family. How can you live in the light? Can there be anything the Lord will do in the city; and if there be a Prophet in that city and the Lord fails to go to him? Can it happen?
Has it happened before? He has always called on the Prophet, disclosed His mission before He will unleash it. And this is our day.
6Shall a trumpet be blown in the city and the people not be alarmed and afraid? Shall misfortune or evil occur [as punishment] and the Lord has not caused it? 7Surely the Lord God will do nothing without revealing His secret to His servants the prophets. [Amos 3:6 – 7]AMP
Let Me tell you something: you want to see the proof of God speaking through Me. Is it not a Message here? By now, is anybody seeking the proof of God speaking through THE SON OF MAN? It means that if you are in this Faith, if you have been following, I want to say it, make it crystal clear, drum it into your ears for the last time: Anything pertaining to God and Godliness, His attributes, His characteristics, both visible and invisible qualities have been made known to the Bride and all of them emanated from One Man, not two sources. One Source. ……
EVERY SIGN FROM GOD IS A STOP SIGN; Preached on Sunday 25th June 2017; Pg. 54 vs. 10 – 11
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WE HAVE UNQUESTIONABLE EVIDENCES [2]
In those days, they were saying, “Let us go to the house of the Prophet and enquire of the Lord.” Today, what do you hear? “Let us go to the house of THE SON OF MAN and know the mind of God.” Halleluiah!
THAT IS WHY WHEN YOU DISCONNECT FROM THE SON OF MAN’S FAMILY, YOU HAVE DISCONNECTED FROM THE GOD-HEAD. YOU HAVE DISCONNECTED FROM THE SOURCE OF LIGHT.
Once you are connected to the family, you are connected to the God-Head. You are sure of having life, life eternal. You will have peace. You have progress.
All the promises of God now belong to you because, you are connected to the Head and to God’s own very family.
Do you not know that all that are in the website are connected to this Family? Did you open the website this morning? Did you see the Elect-Lady? I mean, the woman who will always be labeled a blessed woman in this generation.
Blessed be this woman, who of all women, that is another Mary, for Mary said, “Because you have selected me from among the whole women folk to be the mother of the Saviour of the world; for this singular act, all my women folk shall call me blessed. Who am I?” Halleluiah!
46And Mary said, My soul magnifies and extols the Lord, 47And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, 48For He has looked upon the low station and humiliation of His handmaiden. For behold, from now on all generations [of all ages] will call me blessed and declare me happy and to be envied!
49For He Who is almighty has done great things for me–and holy is His name [to be venerated in His purity, majesty and glory]! [Luke 1:46 – 49 AMP]
We are not telling stories. We are eye witnesses. We are beneficiaries. We are partakers. Amen.
Everything the Bible prophesied is happening here with us. We are for the fulfillment of the good side of the Prophecies and the good side of the Scriptures. Amen. To God be the glory. We are serving a Living God. A Living God.
3To them also He showed Himself alive after His passion (His suffering in the garden and on the cross) and on the cross) by [a series of] many convincing demonstrations [unquestionable evidences and infallible proofs], appearing to them during forty days and talking [to them] about the things of the kingdom of God.
So the dead can come back to life, talk to people, continuing from where He stopped. Is it not true? And in Hebrews 13:8, the Bible said, “HE IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER.” True or false?
Can He change today? When He resurrected, He said, “I LIVE FOREVER.” He is an everlasting God. Is it not true?
For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I LIVE FOREVER. [Deuteronomy 32:40 KJV]
In Malachi 3:6, He said, “I AM THE LORD, I CHANGETH NOT. Therefore, you sons and daughters of Jacob can never be consumed.” Halleluiah!
Fire can never consume you. No flame will consume you. No circumstance. Halleluiah!
SO YOU WILL NEVER BE CONSUMED WHEN YOU ARE HIDING IN HIM BECAUSE YOU ARE HIDING UNDER THE ROCK OF AGES.
You are hiding under His Name, for the Name of the Lord is a mighty tower where the Righteous will flee to and be saved.
The Name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. [Proverbs 18:10 KJV]
That is why in the Book of John 1:10, He said, “He came to His own. Although He created the world, He came unto the world as a human being, but His people did not believe Him. They did not welcome Him.”
10He came into the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him [did not know Him]. [AMP]
In verse 12, He said, “As many as will receive, welcome Him, trust in Him, He gives the authority, I mean, the power, the privilege to become the sons and daughters of God.”
12But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name– [AMP]
SONG: [Blessed assurance, Saviour is mine. Oh what a foretaste of glory divine. Heir of salvation purchased of God. Born of His spirit, washed in the Word.
This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Saviour all the day long. This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Saviour all the day long.]
There were convincing evidences, infallible proofs, even coming to them and encouraging them to continue in the Message which they refused to continue with.
3To them also He showed Himself alive after His passion (His suffering in the garden and on the cross) BY [A SERIES OF] MANY CONVINCING DEMONSTRATIONS… Not one, but a series of many convincing evidences. … [UNQUESTIONABLE EVIDENCES AND INFALLIBLE PROOFS],…There are all in the plural sense. Multiples!
… appearing to them during forty days and talking [to them] about the things of the kingdom of God.
4And while being in their company and eating with them, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father had promised, of which [He said] you have heard Me speak.
5For John baptized with water, but not many days from now you shall be baptized with (placed in, introduced into) the Holy Spirit.
6So when they were assembled, they asked Him, Lord, is this the time when You will re-establish the kingdom and restore it to Israel?
Hold it there! Hold it there! Do not shift one bit. Can you see that of all He was doing in their midst, He wasted His time?
Look at a silly question; a political question that had no bearing whatsoever with what He was discussing with them. Has this thing they were asking any relevance with Faith? Has the question any relevance with salvation, his doctrines or his teachings? Can you see that they never changed? They were like their fathers.
Remember, this thing was happening when He resurrected from the dead. Before He even died, He met with their fathers, the Pharisees, the Scribes, the Sadducees, the Sanhedrins, the Herodians and the Nicolitans, for they were all there.
What happened? He introduced Himself as the king of the Jews. They welcomed him with a very loud ovation. They said, “You are welcome O king of Israel. We admire you. A young man from the house of no other person but Joseph.”
The Bible said they heralded his introduction, and they wanted to crown him king as he proclaimed. He now dressed back and told them, “Do not do it. Do not crown me king. Do not ever attempt crowning me king.”
They said, “No. We need a king who will deliver us from the cruel hands of the Romans, for we have been suffering terribly in the hands of the Roman rule.
“We are no longer happy. We are dissatisfied. We cannot be in our own homeland and we are constantly disenchanted and disenfranchised. Enough is enough. Oh! Young man king. We are with you. Come let us crown you king. You lead us, and we are with you. You will deliver us from the cruel hands of the Romans.”
14Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that Prophet that should come into the world. 15When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone. [John 6:14 – 15 KJV]
To their own astonishment and disappointment, He said, “Okay, My fathers, the Jews, my kingdom is not of this world. I am King but not a king over the affairs of this world.”
36Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.”
37″You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” [John 18:36 – 37 NIV]
They now asked him a question, “Whose king are you? Why then did you come? What do we expect from you then? What then are we looking for? We were told that we should expect a Messiah; And when the Messiah will come, He will deliver us from the cruel hands of the Romans.
And then you are saying that your kingdom is not of the world, and you want us to follow you. Away with this imposter! Away with this idiot! Get away! Get away!
In fact, let me say it, “We have made a mistake by acknowledging you ab initio. We did not crosscheck the Prophecy.
The Prophecy said, “The Messiah will come. Nobody will know where he is coming from, but we know where you came from. We know your father. We know your mother. We know your brothers and sisters. In short, we made a mistake by allowing you to the throne. Will you get away?”
Then the Bible said, “They went and reasoned among themselves, so that they would set a trap for him using his words.”
15Then the Pharisees went and consulted and plotted together how they might entangle Jesus in His talk. [Matthew 22:15 AMP]
13But they sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to Him for the purpose of entrapping Him in His speech. [Mark 12:13 AMP]
Then when He appeared before the temple, He told them, “I am the king of the Jews. I am the king of the Jews right now. Pull down this temple which Solomon built. I will rebuild it in 3 days.”
18Then the Jews retorted, What sign can You show us, seeing You do these things? [What sign, miracle, token, indication can You give us as evidence that You have authority and are commissioned to act in this way?]
19Jesus answered them, Destroy (undo) this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again. 20Then the Jews replied, It took forty-six years to build this temple (sanctuary), and will You raise it up in three days? [John 2:18 – 20 AMP]
The Jewish leaders were terribly infuriated, “What! This is adding insult upon injury. God forbid! Look at this boy who flogged us the in temple. We went to worship God and He came with His people and used whip (bulala) and flogged all of us out of the temple. He has no respect for the elders.
Elders of the land, are you keeping quiet? This boy is mad. This boy has a devil. This boy is Beelzebub. Do you know what we will do? We will do something before it is too late. If we do not arrest this boy or cause him to be arrested and killed, with this boy, one day, we will see this temple in flames.
One day he will carry fuel, and before day break, he has set ablaze this temple that cost us and our fore fathers many years and he will burn it down. We will do something.”
They started plotting for his arrest and his execution. They could not understand that he was talking to them in figures.
He went to another group and said, “I am the king. I am the Almighty God. If you do not believe that I am He, truly speaking, you will die in your sins.
I have done many miraculous wonders among you, and you do not believe that I am He. Let me tell you of a truth, if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. [John 8:24 KJV]
They said, “Are you God? Are you God? Tell us, are you God? If you know you are God, concerning all the good works you have done; you caused the dead to resurrect, we noticed all of them happened in the days of the prophets.
Many resurrected. So, it never started with you. You used bread and fish and fed five thousand. Moses fed two million, it has happened before. So you are not the only one.”
He said, “If you have believed in Moses, you would have believed in me, for Moses spoke concerning me.”
46For if you believed and relied on Moses, you would believe and rely on Me, for he wrote about Me [personally]. [John 5:46 AMP]
15The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him. 16For this is what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”17The Lord said to me: “What they say is good. 18I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. 19If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account. [Deuteronomy 18:15 – 19 NIV]
They said, “Okay, show us a sign. Show us a sign.”
Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. [Matthew 12:38 KJV]
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven. [Matthew 16:1 KJV]
They are looking for convincing demonstrations. Amen!