CLOSE THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART AGAINST YOUR KNOWN ENEMY PART 1 PREACHED ON FRIDAY, 3RD JULY, 2020 (MORNING SECTION) @ THE BRIDAL LODGE, NSUGBE ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN THE ALMIGHTY GOD
If you are carrying the Bible, you will never know this one. Jesus never knew this one. The Apostles never knew this one. But THE SON OF MAN, in whose generation you are, is the Hidden Revealer. We are living in the days of THE SON OF MAN and not in the days of the Apostles. This is the day of THE SON OF MAN. He is to tell you what God has in stock for you. He alone knows the way of escape for all mankind, for He has come as an Angel of Judgment and at the same time as a Messenger who holds the full and complete salvation to give to those who have been eagerly and patiently waiting for Him. Not everybody.
HOLDING UNTO THE CERTAINTY OF THE FAITH: FOR THERE UNTO I AM BORN VOL 2; Preached on Sunday 9th April 2017 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 62 vs. 30 – 31
INTRODUCTION
PRAYER
We bow down before you O Lord of heaven and earth. We bend, O God, our heads lowly before you. Our knees are on the ground before you, Father, for you are His Royal Majesty that liveth and reigneth from eternity to eternity.
There is none to compare to you. And there is none to partner with you. You are the Creator of heaven and earth, and the Creator of all human beings.
Father, you delight yourself in truth, you delight yourself in love and you delight yourself in justice. You hate enemity, you hate injustice and you hate falsehood.
Here we come before your presence this morning, thanking and appreciating you for helping us to see the light of a new day, like the one we are in right now. If you had not woken us up from our sleep, that would have been the end of our sojourn on earth.
For the fact, O God, that we are numbered among the people that are breathing, praising and adoring you, worshipping you and giving you thanks in the land of the living, it is a sure sign that you have not finished with us. As long as you have not finished with us, we can never finish with you.
In life or in death, you belong to us and we belong to you. Father, nothing can separate us from your love and from our love for you, for you have done great and marvellous things for us, which our hearts and consciences can never deny.
Father, we believe strongly through our individual experiences, that without you on our side, saving us, encouraging us, guiding, teaching, protecting and providing for us, there are too many things, Father, we cannot mention.
They are too innumerable for us, but all we know is that without you, we could have been in the land of the dead. Our enemies would have captured us, and we would have become objects of ridicule before all human beings.
The devil is all out to ridicule us, but you are all out to save us from shame, from ridicule, from reproach, from anguish, from disappointment, from despair and from death, in spite of our physical and numerous shortcomings as human beings.
Father, your love still projects towards us. Your grace has always been our portion, and has remained our portion even in our very low estates. Low in morals, low in spirit, low (O God) even in devotion.
Father, we bow low before you and say “Thank you”, for setting aside our infirmities both spiritually and physically.
We say “Thank you” for overlooking all our human weaknesses and imperfections, which we manifest against you and against ourselves, against the truth, every minute of the day, but when it comes to doing evil to the gratifying of the devil, Father, we are wide awake; we are agile; we are alert; we are clever we are vibrant and then, we claim we have the strength.
Father, please forgive us for this foolishness, for it is a great foolishness for one to be very strong in evil and weak in godliness.
Do not allow us to be strong in doing evil, awake in doing evil, agile and clever, but when it comes to doing good, Father, we become very slow, very sluggish and very clumsy; We begin to drag our feet because by nature we have never for one day desired to be associated with anything good, anything godly, anything that is of honest report, anything that is worthy of emulation, anything that is worthy of praise. Human beings have been found to be avoiding that area.
Father please having brought us back to the path of spiritual and moral rectitude, help us, O God, to abide in this particular pathway you have established for righteous people, although it is very narrow, oh! Although it is only a way away from the highway, for every highway leads to sudden destruction.
But this is a way outside the highway, filled with potholes and all kinds of delicate instruments. Only the well faring people who are calculated, Father, who are conscious of who they are, where they are and where they are heading to, these are the people that are worthy, Father, to walk on that way.
Although it may be slow because of the troubles on that road, but if we take our necessary precautions, we will arrive safely. Even faster than those who took the highway, Highway to success!, Highway to destruction;
Highway to material possession!; Highway to destruction; Highway to evil!; Highway to destruction, for whoever that takes a popular highway is risking his life.
Always teach us to follow the narrow and despised way that leads to Paradise, where there is little or no competition. May we never go to the highway where there is competition to drive faster, to reach before everybody, to grab everything and to become the controller of heaven and earth and control the riches.
Father, may we never ply that way, for that way has destroyed many and favoured only but one or two. May we never attempt going that way.
Help us to choose to go to that little way outside the highway where there are thorns and thistles, where there are too many difficulties that will help us to gather our senses together and think ourselves out of the bottle, out of the carton and where the devil has sealed us with cellotape.
Father, let there be nobody whose brain will function very cleverly in evil, and very dull in doing good. Let there be no strong evil man in this family and in the Faith of Christ, who will be very strong in evil, but weak in the kingdom of God; weak in the affairs of the kingdom and weak in morals.
These are the people you call very obstinate, heart-hardened, hard hearted, sinners that have become unrepentant, un-sorrowful, even when their sins are standing before them naked.
They know what they are doing in secret places. They know what they are thinking in their hearts. And they will know the one they will do today, even when your Word will reveal all.
Their obstinate spirits; their hard hearted hearts; their stiff-neckedness and their deaf ears will never permit them to adjust one bit, Father, in the pathway of truth that will guide all of us into paradise.
O God, may such people that are described never be traced to this family. If there be any that is already here, expose that person so that his foolishness will be made manifest.
This is so that the whole world will know that there could be a devil in God’s family; a useless fellow in the family of God; a good-for-nothing fellow; a worthless fellow.
Heavenly Father, help all of us to take our individual decisions so that there will not be anyone fulfilling that dangerous prophecy or dangerous teaching or a worthless fellow in the house of God; A worthless fellow.
Somebody who delights in doing evil in the land of upright, in the land of righteousness and in the land of holiness.
Evil thoughts, evil mind still dominates that individual. A sure sign that, from the beginning, he has no part in the life that Christ gives. May such a person never be traced to this Family!
If the person exists already, trouble the person out of this Family so that the entire world will see your glory in this Family. They will see your splendour. They will see your majesty and they will behold your power in this Family.
Heavenly Father, let your glory reign in this Family. Let your power come down and reign in this Family. Make a name for yourself in this Family. Guide us within and without.
Guide all that are traceable to this Family, either biologically or by adoption, Father, no matter where they might be, even in distant lands, for every Family in heaven and on earth in our own day that is earmarked for salvation must be named after the Family of Apostle Peter Odeomena, The Son of Man.
Whosoever that has a link, a spiritual link, a physical link to this Family, let this evil never be associated with that family or with that individual.
Where there is one already that is existing, Father, expose that one, so that the whole world will know that there could be an evil man in God’s family, in a family where every soul is desiring to live right with God, to maintain a healthy relationship with Christ and with their fellow human beings.
If there be any who is fomenting evil in his heart, desiring evil, cherishing evil or ruminating on evil things, Father do not allow that soul to have rest until that soul is exposed, not only in this family but publicly.
Do something, O God, that will help all to fear and honour your Name throughout all eternity.
We hand over today to your hands for keeps, for whatsoever that is committed into your hands, the devil can never reach it anymore.
O God Almighty, we commit into your hands for keeps, our distant families in different states. Father, you know their locations, beginning with our family, O God, where our mother is at Nsukka, for she is the mother and queen of this house. Save her and safeguard her life.
Cause her stay at Nsukka to be a blessing, not only to the family where she is, but to the entire Brethren that will come to visit her. May her stay there be a blessing and not a curse. May her stay lift up your Name on high and not debase your Name.
Cause her to be a source of encouragement to other mothers, even to their husbands while she shares her experiences.
Cause all that are humble, meek and lowly, desiring, O God, to live godly lives, to listen to her, and to learn to pattern after godliness.
The same way, O God, we remind you of those in Port-Harcourt [in Bonny]. We bring them to your fore. They belong to this Family. Those in Lagos, they belong to this Family. Our sons at Enugu, they are members of this Family.
There are too many other families we have named after this family by adoption. There are too many individuals we have named after this family by adoption.
Spiritually, O God, they have assumed the Name [that adopted name], for whenever one is adopted, he assumes the name of the adoptee.
Therefore, O God, help them never to be ashamed to bear the Name of this Family, for if they are ashamed of confessing that they are members of this Family, Father help me to be ashamed of delivering them in Paradise, for I will be very much ashamed even to have them around me.
All, O God, you have desired, destined before the world began to be yours, that are still alive, even in this generation we are in, draw them to yourself and make them candidates for Paradise, where they will be partakers of eternal life.
This day Friday, Father, we declare it a wonderful and glorious Friday; a blissful Friday; crime-free and evil free, that will be filled with happiness and joy, with abundant blessings and protection.
Let it be so, O God, to all our Brethren living in distant lands; in every family, O God, that is called by your Name, where your fear is their dread, where they will hear your Word and tremble, where they are desirous of doing good, that they might remain pleasing in your sight.
May this prayer be their everlasting portion! Visit them as well.
Our brother Ojiakor, who will be going to Uzuakoli today, Father, to join hands in burying his father in-law, if not for the sanctions because of COVID-19, a good number of us would have been there with him as he has always been with us. But as we have reasoned together, discussed and agreed, Father establish it like that.
Keep him safe and secured on the highways to and fro. Keep him from Collision of all sorts, Father, in his in laws place at Ozoakoli.
Immediately after the burial, help him to come back, for even if he stays till the next world, nothing will happen again, for the man choose his destiny when he was alive.
The children have chosen, O God the pathway they will walk in. And they have chosen their destinations.
So help him to understand that staying there till eternity, talking and talking can never change or reverse the trend even one bit. Help him so that he will hurriedly come back to Enugu and stay with his own family as you have always instructed all of us.
Father, we bow our heads low and say this morning as we listen to your word of truth, “Create perfect understanding in our hearts.”
A Word from you is enough to revitalize us, revive us, re-energize us and equip us Father, for the struggles of today and even in the future. Endue us with power from on high.
Create no room for the devil to distract our attentions away or to fight against your Word as we receive it in our hearts and in our minds.
Whatsoever that will be the thought, that will be inflicted into our hearts, which will be conflicting with the Word of God we have or bringing, O God opposing suggestions, only intending to divert our minds away, do not allow that to happen.
Insulate us completely against such evil attacks, spiritually and physically. Build a strong hedge around us. Make it impossible for such disastrous and deadly insinuations of the devil to ever find its way into our minds or our hearts to disturb our peace which we are having in you.
May your Holy Spirit dwell in us richly and abundantly, helping us, O God, to be sober, to be quiet, to be conscious of ourselves, conscious of our environment and conscious of the hour we are in, that we may always be desiring to live right before you and before all men.
To your Name, O Lord of host, we give the glory and not unto ourselves. To your Name, O Lord of host, we give the victory and not unto ourselves. To your Name, we give the praise, honour, majesty, adoration and exaltation, thanksgiving and worship, and not unto ourselves, for you reigneth for ever and ever.
Harken unto our plea and do, O God, according to our request and even more, for your namesake we pray.
Be Diligent to protect your mindset for anything a man attains in life is a matter of the mind. Since you know that the mind is the central controller of everything, make sure you protect it wisely by making sure no wrong information ever registers there. Make sure that your mind does not process any deceitful information such as gossip, envy, jealousy, malice, anger, hatred, evil speaking, slander, indolence, poverty and other things like that. –SON OF MAN
BE DILIGENT TO PROTECT YOUR MINDSET; Preached on 15th April, 2007 & 22nd April, 2007 at the Household of God Onitsha; Page 6
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GUARD THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART
We give God the praise that we are alive in the land of the living. We equally thank God that this Family is now made up of men, for the only Sister is now at Nsukka.
So we talk to ourselves as men, for the Scriptures said, “That which I have taught you, you have learnt from me, if you learnt anything, hand it over, pass it on to faithful men who will be able to teach others. Is that right? Is that Scripture?
2And the [instructions] which you have heard from me along with many witnesses, transmit and entrust [as a deposit] to reliable and faithful men who will be competent and qualified to teach others also. (2 Timothy 2:2 AMP)
If you know you are still an infant here, show by raising your hand. If you know you are still in the kindergarten stage, and you have never crossed the age of twelve in this family as we gather this morning, show by raising your hand.
That you are below twelve years, that was the number of years Jesus clocked and then his ministry took off.
42And when He was twelve years [old], they went up, as was their custom. (Luke 2:42)
So it is believed that, for anybody who is a young man, once you have clocked twelve years, you have attained the age where you will differentiate between good and evil. You will know what is good and what is bad. Is it not true?
You will know when you are offended. You know when you are happy. And you know when you have offended people also. Is it not true?
In other words, from that twelve years, you are without excuse. Whatever evil you are doing or fomenting or practicing, you are going to bear the consequences because you know the truth.
You decided to set aside the truth that you might perpetuate yourself in evil, for you must set aside the truth for you to practice falsehood. Is there truth there?
NOBODY PRACTICES FALSEHOOD, WITHOUT SETTING ASIDE THE TRUTH.
What God said you should lay aside and set aside is superfluity, haughtiness, pride, envy, jealousy and wickedness of all forms! He said, “Lay them aside with all malice.” With all malice means hate such evil practices. Hate such evil thoughts that lead you to evil characters.
1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, [1 Peter 2:1 KJV]
1SO BE done with every trace of wickedness (depravity, malignity) and all deceit and insincerity (pretense, hypocrisy) and grudges (envy, jealousy) and slander and evil speaking of every kind. [1 Peter 2:1 AMP]
Hate them with perfect hatred. If I say hate something with malice, I mean, hate that thing and regard it as your own known enemy. Do not romance with it. Say no to it, no matter the way it is trying to find its way into your house.
Let me use one instant example! We are living here in this wilderness encompassed about by bushes because they have not been developed. Undeveloped plots are here. Is it not true?
Now, is there anyone of us who will just open the gate and see a snake trying to come into this compound and you remain there watching it, without closing the gate?
When you open the door and see a snake or lizard, or anything that will disturb the house, or rat trying to jump in when you are opening the gate, do you say, “You are welcome? I welcome you to our house.”
Why do we use mosquito flit [insecticide]? Is it not to destroy our known enemy, before it will destroy us? How is it going to destroy us? By injecting poison into our systems, into our bodies, which will make us to be sick. Is it not true?
Mosquito bite is our greatest undoing, for the mosquito aims at injecting its poison into our blood streams: the microbe we call plasmodium.
Once it enters into our blood stream, our body will assimilate it. It is not the day you receive a mosquito bite that you will develop malaria. It will be two weeks after. It will incubate in your body.
It is not the day you received false information or false anointing that it will begin to act. You can receive it today, and it will enter your brain, enter your heart and enter your mind.
Then, anywhere you are, you are processing false information injected into your memory or into your heart by the devil because you said, “Welcome” to it. You did not close the door immediately against it. Then it entered. Is it not true?
Your heart has a door. That is why Jesus said, “I am knocking at the door of your heart. If you will open, I will come in and then, eat and drink with you, and sojourn with you.”
20Behold, 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. [Revelation 3:20 KJV]
Whoever you open your door to, is the visitor you have welcomed to your house. Is it not true?
When you open the mosquito net, you are saying welcome to mosquito. When you open the doors, you say welcome to lizard, to rat, to snake and to all animals that will come and discomfort us in the house. So it is with the individual.
When you open your heart for silly information or open your mind for silly thoughts, unprofitable thoughts, you are doomed. You become restive over ungodly thoughts.
Ungodly imaginations will make you restive. Sometimes you become moody, you will be working sluggishly. Sometimes you will forget yourself, because the thought of the mind can cause somebody to become blind physically.
What one thinks in his mind can cause him blindness. That is why accident happen. The moment you are absent minded on the highway, accident will occur, because you have lost concentration.
So it is happening to every individual, but God has lifted up a standard in our hearts by telling us what we should be ruminating on.
If there be anything that is good, honest, edifying, encouraging, that will minister Grace to the hearer, that is holy, that is of honest report, if you know you are a seed of God, you have Christ virtue, He said, “Think of these things.”
[8]Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. [9]Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. [Philippians 4:8 – 9 KJV]
But instead of following God’s approved way of thinking, man decided to go in his own subtlety, in a crafty way by opening his heart to welcome the devil and all his angels. They will come and possess man, dominate the mind, dominate the thought and also dominate the character.
BECAUSE IT IS NOT THE DAY THE SNAKE BITES A MAN THAT THE VICTIM WILL DIE. IT IS NOT THE DAY THAT A MAN RECEIVES A DOG’S BITE, THAT HE WILL GO MAD LIKE A DOG AND BEGIN TO BARK LIKE A DOG. IT IS WHEN THE SYSTEM HAS ACCEPTED IT.
It can last for one week or two, or even one month. After processing it in the system, you see the thing manifesting.
If you were bitten by a mad dog, you will go mad and be barking like a mad dog. If you received snake bite, and you never vomited it within the seven days of its attack, watch your leg.
(1) It will be swollen. (2) You will be seeing movement in your system, wriggling movement, zigzag movement like snake moving all over your body, because the poison is injected inside your blood stream.
If there is nobody that will come to your rescue with the remedy, you are dying. Any day you vomit anything that is green like the green snake, or black like the black snake, depending on the one that bit you, you are dying that day. Did you get what I am saying?
When you eat food that is poisonous to your health and it continues to disturb you, disturb your movement and disturb you from sitting down and standing up, everywhere, you know you have eaten a very bad food.
What do you pray for? You pray that God will help you to vomit it. And until it is vomited and the system is cleansed, you will never regain yourself.
Even, you will be doing everything within your power to induce vomiting, because your body does not like it. Your body did not welcome it.
THIS IS THE WAY A TRUE SEED OF GOD VOMITS EVERY EVIL THOUGHT, EVERY INFORMATION THAT IS UNGODLY, THAT FINDS ITS WAY INTO HIS MEMORY. HE RESTS AT NOTHING UNTIL HE HAS VOMITED IT, BECAUSE HE DOES NOT WANT TO ACCOMMODATE IT.
But the moment you decide to accommodate it, you processed it, when evil has become pregnant, what does it deliver? It delivers death. It delivers what? Death.
This is because it will foment trouble in your system, change your mood, change your attitude, change your thought and change everything in you to suit the devil. You become the devil’s instrument. Did you get the message?
Is there any malaria drug that does not have bitter taste? Any malaria drug you take that does not discomfort you cannot kill the germ. Every effective malaria drug must make you to look drowsy. It must trouble you. Is it not true? Thank you!
So, in the same way, you cannot vomit without using your whole strength. You must desire to vomit that poison that is in your body because it is not helping your system one bit. It has come to destroy you.
Can you harbour that food? Why then do you harbour evil thoughts? Why do you harbour your greatest enemy in your heart? Why do you want to help your enemy to destroy you?
Whoever that welcomes his known enemy into his house, what is he doing? He is helping his enemy to destroy him. True or false?
When you harbour any thought that runs contrary to the truth, any imagination of your mind that you know is discouraging and which is not praiseworthy, and can never give glory to the Name of God, that thought has only come to upset you, FOR EVERY WRONG INFORMATION AIMS AT UPSETTING THE RECIPIENT. TRUE OR FALSE?
EVERY WRONG INFORMATION HAS ONLY BUT ONE AIM. TO UPSET THE RECIPIENT.
There is a news you will hear now, to eat breakfast will be impossible for you. Hunger will stop as you are reflecting on the news you heard.
You may not have the solution, but you have harboured it. Should any problem I do not have the solution trouble me?
Check what is happening in your life to find out why you are not living a steady Christ’s life. If it does not emanate from these areas I have touched, know that I am not the Son of Man.
Check everything that is making you to be very unstable, inspite of the knowledge of the truth you have acquired; inspite of the decisions you have taken; the prayers you have made; Yet, your life is still very much unstable, tilting a little to the devil, a little to God.
Check it very well. It is because anybody who opens your door, is the one that will enter. True or false?
You see your destroyer [a snake] trying to rush into your house, and instead of banging the door against its neck, if it is possible, use the door to cut off the head, you allow the snake to sneak in and hide in you and then begin to reproduce through you.
This is because wherever the snake finds a hiding place, that is where the snake will make its abode, and from there, it will reproduce.
Hear me very well. Remember that a snake does not lay eggs outside. Everything is in a snake, both the laid eggs. They are hidden inside. That is why the moment the eggs begin to hatch, it hatches, I mean, its young ones in hundreds.
They pierce the body of their mother and come out. That is why the moment they come out, the mother will die, the children will continue with life. That is how snakes reproduce!
An Igbo adage says that when a python gets pregnant, it reproduces death, because the young ones will have to pierce the stomach in order to come out.
Remember, it does not hibernate on the land, but beside the sea when nearing delivery. So that any of the young one that comes out will easily enter the water.
Initially, you may be mistaking them to be earthworms, but not until they start entering the water and developing. Then, you will find out that they are snakes. One day, you will then find the mother decaying somewhere, dead.
What am I saying? THE DAY YOU WELCOMED AND HARBORED THAT SNAKE INTO YOUR HEART IS NOT THE DAY IT WILL BEGIN TO MANIFEST. IT WILL BECOME PREGNANT IN YOU AND IMPREGNATE YOU BECAUSE THE EGG WILL BE HATCHED IN YOUR SYSTEM.
WHEN IT HATCHES THE EGGS INSIDE YOUR BODY, THE YOUNG ONES WILL WRIGGLE OUT AS THEY WILL BE LOOKING FOR EXIT ROUTES, AND FROM THERE, THEY WILL BE SHOWCASING THEMSELVES.
IT CAN BE THROUGH YOUR EYES. IT CAN BE THROUGH YOUR MOUTH. IT CAN BE THROUGH YOUR PENIS. IT CAN BE THROUGH YOUR ANUS. IT CAN BE THROUGH YOUR STOMACH. AND IT CAN BE THROUGH YOUR HAND. THE DEVIL IS EXUDING ITSELF. IS IT A LIE?
The devil can be exuding itself through your eyes. Your eyes will only be going to evil things. Your nose going to evil things. Your mouth, evil things. Your ears, evil things. Your hand, evil things. Your legs, evil things. Your buttocks, evil things. Your penis, evil things.
Everything in your body will be manifesting itself in evil. All of them, evil, evil. Is there truth in it?
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AVOID THE DEVIL’S QUARANTINE
You must know the truth and the truth will set you free. Why do you open your door to your greatest enemy, who is coming in to upset you, for the devil can never come in without upsetting somebody?
The first victim of the devil suffers the first upset. The second victim[s] will be the people living round about the first victim. They will get their fair share of that upset. Is it a lie?
THE MOMENT YOU ARE POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL AND YOU ARE UPSET, ALL THAT ARE ENTRUSTED TO YOUR CARE WILL BE SUFFERING. All working tools, your work and everything will be affected. They will be adversely affected. Your performance is affected. Is it not true?
The moment your performance is no longer what it ought to be or what it used to be, has it not been affected? Those who should be benefiting from your performance, have they not been affected? That is why it has a chain effect. A chain effect.
For that reason, the only way out is never to open your door for the enemy. The known enemy! The enemy you know, not the one you do not know, FOR I HAVE TAUGHT YOU TO BE WARY OF THE BITE OF SNAKES. SNAKE BITE! SNAKE BITE! I HAVE WARNED YOU TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT SECOND CAPTIVITY IN THE HAND OF THE DEVIL.
HEALTH IS WEALTH
Then what am I aiming at? Lock up your door. Lock up your Windows and put your mosquito net. If you do not want to suffer the dreaded disease called malaria, make sure your door is locked and your mosquito net is there always.
If you do not want to suffer typhoid like others, make sure your water is clean. Make sure your water is what? Clean! Use the approved chemicals like sodium hypochlorite or Alum and then, purify your water.
Use Parozone®; use Puritin®; use Milton® [tablets], use Hypo® to purify your water, reduce the hardness and reduce the chemical content of the water because it is polluted.
By so doing, you are reducing to the barest minimum, the insidious attack of typhoid. Clean your environment. Live in a clean environment. Do not be dirty, for dirty environment promotes typhoid and also promotes all manner of diseases. True or false?
Let your environment be clean. Cleanliness begins with your teeth, with your dresses, with your bed, with your clothing’s and with the rooms you are dwelling in.
Common sense will tell you that where two or three people are living in one room, that room must be scrubbed at least three times a week.
It is just like this parlour. People come in here every now and then. If you wait until every Saturday to clean it, you are blind. Some people will come in with their shoes and sandals. Not everybody has that personal discipline to drop their shoes at the gate.
Do you not meet them here? Wearing their shoes, wearing their canvas which they used to trek long distance and they come here.
You might be looking at the tiles and say they are neat, but what you have to consider is the influx of persons into this house, who come in unhygienic.
That is not all! Common sense will also tell you that, as long as this parlour is large, this is our reception. This parlour is our reception. The outer side is our reception.
Every beginning of the day and every end of the day or depending on the way you want to see it, it is expected that you will put disinfectant inside water, and clean the environment.
If it is Dettol® or any other disinfectant, put it inside water. If it is Puritin® or any other sodium hypochlorite put is inside water, and then use rag to cleanse these seats.
Clean all the seats because the person that came in and sat down wore something on his or her body. True or false? When the body is contaminated, the dress is also contaminated. Is it a lie?
Any person that has sweated on his cloth, and who came here and sat down, is it not the seat that will absorb the thing? If you happen to wear singlet, just as I and Chika are wearing now or wore nothing, do you not know that your life is at risk?
That is why in the government offices, once after a meeting, we cleanse and we scrub.
If you go to bank, you notice that while customers are there, the cleaners are busy cleaning, to make sure that nobody contaminates anybody or gets infected because the person came to bank to do business.
That is why we have to be up and doing, especially now that all of us are at home.
Assuming that the schools are on, in the morning, all of you will go to school. While Mummy will go to work, I will also go to work, and we lock up this place. As it is before we left, so shall it be before we come back. Is it not true?
When we come back we meet it neat. But now we are all at home, and people know we are at home. Is it not true? Do you not see many legs here?
BE THOU DILIGENT TO PROTECT YOUR MINDSET
I am telling you why you must be serious, up and doing. I believe it is better to engage yourself in an honest work than to lie down thinking evil and meditating on evil.
You become an idle man who has decided to make himself the devil’s workshop, for you cannot be busy doing something meaningful, singing praises, and the devil will attack you there. Can it happen?
It is when you decide to sit down and then be gazing at the sky and be gazing at the wall that foolish thoughts will be coming in.
You may pretend you are studying the Message by holding a sermon book in your hand. If you are sincere, you will know that the same page you opened is the same page you will hold for hours until you come out.
When you hear your name, you will respond, only to notice that for two hours, you did not go beyond the same page you opened. The devil used the sermon book to trick you.
You sit down and pretend you are reading so that nobody will query you, when you know you are not there and you are not reading. There are many ways the devil will bring silly thoughts into your heart.
REMEMBER WHAT I AM SAYING, “DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR TO YOUR KNOWN ENEMY WHO HAS ONLY BUT ONE AIM. TO UPSET YOU.”
THE MOMENT A CHILD OF GOD IS UPSET, CAN HE CONCENTRATE IN THE THINGS OF GOD? CAN HE CONCENTRATE EVEN IN NORMAL DAY’S ACTIVITIES? HE IS DISORGANIZED IMMEDIATELY.
HE LOOSES CONCENTRATION, AND HE LOOSES HIS BALANCE. IN SHORT, HE FORGETS HIMSELF. HE LOOSES CONSCIOUSNESS, BECAUSE HE OPENED HIS DOOR TO SAY WELCOME TO A KNOWN ENEMY.
In many ways, we help our enemies to destroy us or to create disaffection between us and God, and even our fellow human beings. This is because, if you are not performing your duties very well, nobody will appreciate you. And nobody will like to work with you.
Everybody will be on you. You become a reference point for everything evil because you are setting the hands of the clock back.
You are constituting a clog on the wheel of progress because anybody that is not functioning properly in an industry [in a family] oh, I mean in a productive venture, is constituting an obstacle and an impediment. Is it a lie?
Are you hearing what I am saying? I am saying that anyone that is not performing well in a family is an obstacle? If you are not doing well in your office, you are an obstacle. If you are not doing well in the school, you are an obstacle. But then, you are eating food!
That is why everyone should inquire from himself or herself: “These voices coming to me; These fingers being pointed at me, are they being pointed at others also?” Why should you be the odd man out for evil?
You can only separate and God will justify it, if you notice that the people around you are doing evil. Do not follow the majority when you notice they are doing evil. God will approve your isolation and separation.
But if you are separating yourself, not unto holiness but to evil, you are God’s greatest enemy.
For God called us and separated us unto holiness, “For ye shall be holy unto me for, I the Lord, I am holy. I have separated you from other people that you will be holy, that you will be mine” says the Lord God Almighty.
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine. [Leviticus 20:26 KJV]
But when the devil separates you from the land of holiness, from the land of uprightness and the land of righteousness, the devil will keep you in his own quarantine. Oh! You are doomed.
If you are wise and understanding, hear Me very well. Do not permit the devil to quarantine you, for you are doomed the moment the devil quarantines you, or you quarantine yourself in the devil’s quarantine room! Did you get the Message?
This is because, when you contact COVID-19, and there is no quarantine center, the instruction is “Go on self-quarantine.” Self-isolation. Whether self-isolation or public one, the truth is that COVID-19 is in you.
You have contacted the evil. So, to avoid personal quarantine and government quarantine, what do you do? Pray that you will not contact coronavirus disease. Pray that you will never contact the virus because quarantine is quarantine.
You can die in either of them. In self-quarantine, people die. In public quarantine, people die. What is killing them? Is it quarantine? What is killing them is the disease they contacted, which has become incurable. Did you get the Message?
When sin has become an incurable disease in the life of the person, what awaits you? Death, spiritually and physically.
One of the reasons I am sent is to put an end to this generation. And I am on the scene! I never waited for somebody to come and give Me reports. I came to see for Myself. …… The Throne is established in righteousness and it shall never crumble. If THE SON OF MAN sets you free, you are free indeed. This is pure truth.
I AM THE WORD VOL 2; Preached on Sunday 19th January 2014 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 40 vs. 51 – 52
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LOCK OUT THE DEVIL FROM YOUR HEART
When you come to a point with evil habit, where the Word of God cannot be the remedy and cannot provide the remedy, what else can remedy it.
If the Word of God cannot deliver you out of sinful habit[s], what will deliver you? Anybody God cannot deliver from the hand of the devil and the devil’s operations, who will deliver that person again?
Saint Paul found himself in such a quagmire. What did he do? He cried unto the Lord and shouted, “I am doomed to destruction. Who will deliver me from this horrible situation I am in?”
Saint Paul said, “He heard a voice saying Christ.” Christ came to his rescue, for he was sincere. He ran to Christ, and he regained his freedom.
23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God–through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. [Romans 1:23 – 25 NIV]
That is why a sinner and a disobedient fellow is always in bondage. When you hear that people are living in bondage, ask “In bondage to what?” In bondage to sin. In bondage to the devil.
Somebody can be in the devil’s prison custody, yet he does not know. Chained hand and foot, yet he does not know.
WHEN YOU HAVE FOUND YOURSELF IN AN EVIL HABIT, YOU CANNOT WRIGGLE OUT, NO MATTER YOUR EFFORTS, NO MATTER THE PRAYER, NO MATTER THE TEACHING, DO YOU NOT KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN CHAINED? THE DEVIL HAS PLACED YOU IN HIS CUSTODY? IT TAKES CHRIST TO COME AND BRING YOU OUT.
If Christ does not come and open the prison, break that iron chain the devil used to chain your hand and your feet, there is no way of escape.
When Peter was imprisoned, who opened the prison yard? Christ! Who imprisoned him? The devil and his agents.
5So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. 6The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance.
7Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.
8Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him. 9Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision.
10They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him. [Acts 12:5 – 10 NIV]
Paul and Silas were imprisoned for no just cause. Who went there and opened the prison gate? Who broke the bars? Christ! Who delivered them? Christ!
24Upon receiving such orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. 25About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
26Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody’s chains came loose. [Acts 16:24 – 26 NIV]
The Same Christ can deliver all of us, if we are sincere and do what those people did. The Bible said they cried, they prayed and they sang. They cried unto the Lord; They prayed to the Lord and they sang unto the glory of His Name. The Lord came down.
SONG: [Paul and Silas, they cried, they prayed and the heaven came down.] Heaven came down. God came down, opened the prison gates, delivered them and showed them the way out.
What if they had entered the prison and they closed their mouths, and joined all the prison inmates in their jesting, who have become real inmates in the sense that they have been in the prison for many years or many months, and they were not feeling troubled.
This is because when evil does not trouble you, you have become a customer to that evil. Did you get the message?
A customer is not a disturbance to the seller of any goods, for he is the essence of the business.
A customer to the devil is not a disturbance to the devil, for he is the essence of the devil coming to manifest himself, for the devil cannot do without him. Is it not true?
When the devil is looking for somebody he will use to cause havoc or to upset, he knows he has one. He will detail him to come, use him as instrument and set everywhere on fire.
That person will inject trouble where there is peace; create anarchy where there is real communication and then, bring everything in the family to a halt by creating a stalemate. Instead of people moving forward, they will be moving backward.
Do you think the devil will like to dispose of that person who is a powerful instrument in his hand to unleash mayhem and havoc?
The devil will chain that person and arm him more and more by promoting him to higher, higher levels of evil; From one level to another continually because he is a favourite, a welcomed child, doing the devil’s wish.
The same way God promotes his own children, from one level of glory to another. That is, from glory to glory, God promotes his children. The devil also promotes his own children from one level of evil to another.
So begin to check the operation of the devil in your life because you opened your gate to your known enemy. Instead of using the gate to bang and destroy the head of the evil, you allow the snake to sneak in. Just like the name sounds, it is a snake that is why it sneaks in.
When snake wants to enter into this house, we will not know. A little hole will accommodate him to put its head. Does a snake make noise on the ground? If snake enters the house, you will not hear any sound.
When it is in the bush, do you hear the noise? Does it shout? That is why we call it green snake in a green grass.
The devil can sneak in unawares in the form of a human being, but when it begins to manifest what is inside, we will see it and begin to shout. Man! Evil has happened o! Evil has happened o!
And people will begin to wonder, “So, this is how this brother is? I thought that this brother is sensible? Even with all the beauty? Evil has happened o!
So, what am I saying? As we open our hearts to receive the truth, which is Christ, the truth, the way and the life, so we open our hearts and memory to welcome falsehood, lies and things that do not profit.
And by so doing, we promote the devil and help him to upset our spiritual life, strain our relationship with God and with one another.
And become a very bad obstruction, a wicked obstruction on the wheel of progress in the family, in the association and in any company where you find yourself.
There is no way you can operate negatively and then there remains a smooth process. Can it happen? That is why a sinner is a big obstruction. A disobedient fellow who refuses to carry out instructions given to him, is he not an obstruction?
If you are sent to go and cut pumpkin leaves and to keep it for the preparation of soup, and you accept, will the owner be happy to come back and find out that none of the assignments was performed? When asked the reason for not performing it, you will be speaking incoherently.
If it is food that should be ready by 6pm, by 9pm they are still in the kitchen. Who caused it? The evil man! Who and who will suffer for it? All the people that will partake in the food.
You see why, when you see an evil man manifesting evil, do not ever cover him up. When you cover an evil man, his evil will affect you. True or false?
If you welcome a thief in your house, when Police comes to arrest him, will they leave you? If you welcome one with coronavirus disease in your house, will you escape coronavirus disease? Is it a lie?
I want you to understand that anyone who welcomes one with evil, who is comfortable with such a person is equally an evil fellow.
If you welcome a snake into your heart, to stay in your house to get pregnant and deliver, then the young ones will perforate her stomach and come out through your behaviours!
It is because that is the way you cherish it. You cherish to go the way of evil more than the way of good? Then what do you expect to be your reward in the end? What will be our reward in the end?
Song: [At the end; at the end, we will gather together in heaven at the end.]
At the end, we will gather together where? In heaven where our rewards and our mansion is.
Song: [Our mansion is in heaven. A good mansion is in heaven knocking.]
Song: [My joy is: I am going somewhere. A good land without death]
How can you be living a disobedient live, making your enemy your friend? Immediately you make your enemy your friend, remove your eyes from the hope of God’s kingdom. Your heart will always go to where your enemy is. Is it a lie?
You can only go to the person that called you. If God called, will you listen to anyone calling you from behind? This is because that is where your heart’s desire is.
If God called, will you give attention to any other person calling you? It is better that you finish with God’s call first. Then when you will be on your way back and the person confronts you, you will tell the person to close that chapter.
That was before. I was paying attention to your call and to your invitation, that was before. If you do not have a testimony like that, your life is still at risk. If God will call it quit today, you are perishing.
If God will say it is finished this morning, you are going to hell. To tell you the truth, it is hell fire because the truth you heard and you were taught will not bring you into God’s kingdom till you put it into action. Truth that is not practiced, can it been seen?
The only way you can see truth is by putting it into practice. It is not by confessing it. You do not put fish in the soup with mere words of your mouth.
Any truth that is not practiced cannot be made visible before people. Nobody can believe it. Nobody can cherish it. Nobody can even exalt it. And nobody can emulate it because it is not visible.
That is why when truth is made visible through our characters, people will like to come near us, to pattern after us and to emulate our ways. But those who hate truth will run away from us. Is it a lie?
Does not an evil person run away from where there is light? Let us pray to God. If you do not know what to title this exaltation, title it, CLOSE YOUR DOOR AGAINST YOUR KNOWN ENEMY. close your door against your known enemy. Do not ever open. lose your door.
Jesus said, “I am knocking at your heart, the door of your heart. If you will open I will come in and sup with you, dine with you and dwell with you.
20Behold, 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. [Revelation 3:20 KJV]
The same way the devil is knocking at every man’s heart. If you open, the devil will come in immediately and deliver his children in your heart.
The children will make themselves manifest through your character, through your hands, your mouth, your brain, your soul, your leg and your nose. And everything in you will be manifesting the devil.
So, close your door. Close the door of your heart, for that is the central point. CLOSE THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART AGAINST YOUR KNOWN ENEMY. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY YOU AVOID YOUR ENEMY. LOCK YOUR ENEMY OUTSIDE.
BUT THAT ONE WHICH IS YOUR FRIEND, LOCK THAT ONE INSIDE. SOJOURN WITH THAT ONE. DWELL WITH THAT ONE. SLEEP AND EAT WITH THAT ONE. FEAR NOT.
BUT FOR THAT ONE OUTSIDE, DO NOT EVER LEAVE IT TO ENTER, NO MATTER HOW HE WILL ROAR AND ACCUSE YOU and CALL YOU ALL MANNER OF EVIL NAMES. HE IS AIMING AT MAKING YOU TO OPEN THAT DOOR.
Even if he comes to threaten you, “I will do this. I will do that”, leave him alone. Let him roar outside.
The devil is roaring outside. God is inside. When you lock in with God, you lock out the devil. Is it a lie? So when you lock in the devil, you lock out Christ.
So, take note of what we have heard this morning. Let it be the point of our meditations throughout today, and even in the days that lie ahead of us.
LET NOBODY EVER ALLOW THIS WORD OF EXHORTATION THIS MORNING TO SLIP OFF FROM HIS HEART. IF WE CAN MEDITATE ON THIS AND THEN HAVE OUR PERSONAL DECISIONS TO IMPLEMENT THIS MESSAGE AS WE HAVE RECEIVED IT, IT SHALL BE WELL WITH US. IT SHALL BE WELL WITH ALL THAT WILL HEAR IT FROM DISTANT PLACES.
On this note I say, Bro Ikem, lead us in a very short prayer, thanking God for this wonderful visitation, and also thanking God for this spiritual awareness.
CLOSE THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART AGAINST YOUR KNOWN ENEMY PART 2
EVENING SECTION
Now, we know the Personality that is standing in our midst. He is the Last Hope of mankind, the Only and sure Anchor that will never disappoint, The only Link you have with The Light. In other words, as long as I am on the scene, I am the Light of the world. Whoever that leaves Me must wallow in darkness…..
LIVING BEYOND THE PRIMITIVE SIDE OF LIFE; Preached on 3rd June 2007 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 40 vs. 6 – 9
PRAYER
Our Heavenly Father, here we are before your presence tonight to renew our strength in your presence, for in your presence, there is always the anointing that breaks every yoke.
We give you all the praise and all the thanksgiving. We worship and adore you because of who you are to us. We thank you immensely for leading us out and bringing us back safely.
Thank you for creating, O God, an opportunity like this for us where we can gather after the toils of the day, Father, to seek your face and to have that opportunity to say “Thank you” for the protection you offered us.
I know, O God, that many went out in the morning, but not all of them might be privileged to come back today alive. Father, we give you the praise and glory.
We give you the honour that no evil reports were received so far from morning till this hour from our brethren everywhere. Rather, testimonies reaching us confirm that you are equally with them, doing them good according to your promise.
As we gather here tonight, we plead with you. Peradventure, O God, we have sinned against Thee in any form or shape, forgive us for your Name’s sake.
Cleanse our hearts, O God, from any filth and from any stain. Cleanse our hearts from any doubt and from any unbelief. Father, put a block against, O God, wandering spirit.
May our minds never wander away from your Word. Let thy Holy Spirit build a strong hedge around us. Do a similar work, O God, in every family that has gathered this evening, Father to seek your face and to renew their strength in your presence.
Wherever they gather in their homes globally, you know them. Father, I pray that your eyes will reach all of them one by one, and bless all of them. Bless their gathering. Bless us so that our gathering tonight, O God, will be a blessing to us and not a curse. Speak directly to our hearts, O God, tonight.
In the morning hours, we were blessed. We were enriched for you widened our understanding, O God. Tonight, we pray Thee, O King of glory, to continue from where you stopped.
Any vessel you will use this night to speak to our hearts, saturate him, O God, with Thy Holy Spirit, with Thy truth and with Thy Love.
Give him the spirit of boldness and utterance to speak nothing but Thy Word. And give us believing hearts, Father, to hearken to your word and to obey.
In any way the devil will try, O God, to buffet us about, to create, O King of glory disaffection among us or to block, Father, even the entrance of the Word into our hearts, Lord I pray Thee, resist all.
Do not allow his plans to ever manifest. Insulate us against such spiritual attacks, insulate us against physical attacks. May we live forever in your presence! We give you all the praise and glory for hearing our prayers for your Name’s sake we pray. Amen.
GOD HAS GIVEN US VICTORY. IF YOU HAVE NO FAITH NOW, HAVE FAITH IN THE LIVING TABERNACLE THAT GOD HAS ORDAINED HIS SHEPHERD THAT WILL GUARD HIS ARK. THE ARK OF GOD IS THE WORD OF GOD.
JERUSALEM TO JERICHO; Preached on Tuesday 9th March 1993 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 40 vs. 10
INTRODUCTION
BY THE SON OF MAN
We want to listen to our Brother, the Evangelist Chibuikem. He told Me in the morning that he will like to encourage us tonight. He equally volunteered to encourage us if there be Sunday, during the Sunday worship and I have approved all.
So let us give ear to whatever we are going to hear tonight, because iron sharpeneth iron. Like I told you, now, we are all men. I say, we are all men. So handling of the Word of God, preaching the Word, teaching and everything is now vested into our hands.
So you cannot say, “I am not going to teach. I will not exhort. I am a woman.” You are not a woman. You are a man. So that if you know that which you have believed, you are practicing and that has become a part of your life, you share it.
That is your experience, because what we preach is experience; what we have experienced in Christ from the day we believed in Him; the changes that have taken place in our lives, which is encouraging us to serve Him the more and to pay attention the more, because we remember what we were in time past.
We know what we are today, and we can ascribe whatever we are today to God and God alone, for without God, we were in captivity in the hand of the devil.
The devil blinded us, fooled us and was using us as a tool, I mean, to do all manner of evil. This is because we did not know the truth. We did not know God.
Whoever that does not know the truth, does he know God? If you do not know the truth, you do not know God.
Until you know God, you will not begin to hear the Word of God. Know God. Identify with God. And then, you will discover what makes Him the Almighty when you begin to experience the power of transformation in your own personal life.
God’s power of transformation taking place in your own personal life as a result of your belief of the truth from God, which the devil never offered any of us in time past, For the devil never, in short the devil does not think good of anybody. Nobody has ever obtained anything good from the devil.
SO, WHOSOEVER THAT GOES BACK TO THE DEVIL AFTER KNOWING THE TRUTH, I WILL CALL THAT PERSON THE MOST USELESS HUMAN BEING ON EARTH.
It is like somebody who died and was buried. And a friend came, opened the grave and exhumed the body, resuscitated him and he came back to life [he survived it].
And finally, after testing the world again, he just decided to go to the grave and bury himself again or be nearing the grave every day and be peeping into it. What is he trying to find inside the grave? Is there anything good in the grave?
Somebody who was delivered from the grave, who goes back to the grave to peep in and observe it, is he not foolish? His foolishness is the greatest.
You are delivered from the dead and you go back to experiment with it! God has delivered us from, I mean, from that bottomless pit.
It will be arrant stupidity on our side to be going near that bottomless pit to peep inside. What are you going to see inside?
Once you are delivered from the bottomless pit, what do you do? Run with all your strength, escape by flight and do not go near there again.
A child that went to the bush and was pursued by a snake, will he like to go there again? Even if you tell him that the snake has been chased away or killed, will he go there again? It is the same thing!
If God has delivered you from an evil thing, evil life, and gave you eternal hope, why are you going back to the old life devoid of truth, progress, peace and joy?
Can you not see that the person is a fool! He is like one released from the prison, but who goes out to commit another crime. He did not learn anything from the first experience. He did not learn anything.
If you have learnt anything good from God, you can never dream of going back to the devil. Is it not true? Is it not true?
You will say, “Till eternity, it must be God because life is only found [in short, abundant life is only found] in God.”
Take away God, there is no life, for the devil can never offer any man life. The devil offers death, for that is his mission. The Bible says that the devil cometh to kill, to steal, to destroy and to carry away.” Look at the ministry of the devil. To kill, to destroy, vandalize, carry away. But Christ has come that we may have life, and have it more abundantly.
10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. 11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. [John 10:10 – 11 KJV]
That is why Christ has come to give us peace, but the devil has never given anybody peace, for there is no peace with the devil. Since he does not have peace, can he offer peace?
22″There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.” [Isaiah 48:22 NIV]
God is the God of peace. That is why greater peace have they that know him, for nothing shall by any means offend them.
165Great peace have they who love Your law; nothing shall offend them or make them stumble. [Psalms 119:165 AMP]
So, let us give our ear to what we are going to hear from the mouth of God’s Evangelist tonight. Remain blessed. I hope you are making tapes.
THAT IS WHY YOU CAN JOKE WITH ANYBODY, BUT NOT WITH SATAN. YOU CAN JOKE WITH ANYBODY, BUT NOT WITH SATAN. SATAN DOES NOT MEAN WELL TO ANYBODY. THE ONLY PERSON THE DEVIL CAN NEVER GRIP FIRMLY IS THE ELECT. BUT ANYBODY GOD WANTS TO BRING INTO PARADISE COMPASSIONATELY IS IN DANGER. YOU ARE IN DANGER.
BEWARE OF SECOND SPIRITUAL CAPTIVITY VOLUME 3 [FAMILY ALTAR MESSAGE]; Preached on Thursday, 16th April 2020; Chapter 1 verse 27 – 28
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GUARD YOURSELF AGAINST ERROR
You are blessed Brethren. We thank God for what he has been doing for us throughout this week, especially this morning with the Message; “Close the door of your heart against your known enemy.”
SOM: Yes! Identify the enemy. Close the door of your heart against him. Do not give him admission into your heart. do not allow him to enter.
And we know who that our known enemy is; for God told us that we have one common enemy. Sure! Our enemy cannot be two.
SOM: One common enemy!
It is one common enemy that we have. In that same message, it was seen that God is constantly knocking at the door of our heart, the same way the devil is constantly knocking at the door of our hearts.
Anyone we open the door to, that is the one that will come in and take its place in our hearts. If it is God, you see yourself doing the will of God at every moment. If it is the devil, in the same way, you will see yourself doing his will at all times. If it is God, you will be doing God’s will at any moment. Sure!
So, that leads us to the Message I want us to consider this evening. The title of the Message is, DOING THE WILL OF GOD. Words of encouragement by Bishop Justice of the Household of God Lagos.
It does not have any year it was preached. Chapter one says, “THERE IS NO GLORY IN ERROR.”
SOM: There is no glory in what? Error.
An error is a mistake that causes problem, it is not a thing of joy. Sure! No wise fellow will glory in a thing that causes problem. Brethren is it not true?
In our message, MY PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW ME page 105 verse 13, it is written there that, he that will glory, let him glory in the Lord. There is no Scripture that encourages a man to glory in error.
SOM: It does not exist.
Rather, a man should glory in the Lord, and a man’s glory in the Lord should be that he knows and understands the Lord and can walk in his ways blamelessly. Amen.
And can do what? Walk in his ways blamelessly.
What is a man’s glory in error? Can a man be blameless in error? Never! I cannot be blameless in a problem that is associated with my error.
Sometimes a fool, full of himself displays laughable acts of self-justification, all in the attempt to exonerate himself from blame. Sure!!!
You are either doing the will of God or you are doing your own will. You are either doing the will of God or your own will, which is the will of Satan, for there is no way your own will can coincide with the will of God. Never!!!
You are either doing the will of God or you are doing your own will. Sometimes a fool, full of himself displays laughable acts of self-justification, all in the attempt to exonerate himself from blame. Sure!!!
You are either doing the will of God or you are doing your own will. Once you refuse to do what you are supposed to do, problem must come out from there. Amen.
Brethren, did you hear it? Once you refuse to do what you are supposed to do, problem must come out from there.
SOM: Problem must arise from that very point.
And that is the error. There is no glory in error. Glory can only be found where a wiser counsel prevails. Amen!!!
God is of the wiser counsel. His ways are not in error. You cannot be happy when you are in error, unless you are stupid and foolish.
SOM: Unless the person is not a seed of God. Only a seed of the devil will feel happy when he is in error. A serpent seed is the only person that will feel happy when he finds himself in error.
Whoever that glories in error, does he belong to God? He is glorying in wickedness. He is glorying in unbelief. And he is glorying in willful disobedience to the truth. Is it a lie? He that glories with evil, is he a human being? Has he the spirit of God? Evil is making him happy.
Instead of kneeling down and begging God for forgiveness and deciding not to go back again, he is bragging with evil. Is he a human being? Is he a seed of God? These are indicators by which you know where you belong to.
If what should make you to cry and weep, even go on your knees before the Lord and ask for his mercy, for his pardon; If that type of thing is what will be giving you joy, for which cause you will be bragging, and you will be laughing over it as if it does not matter, that person is doomed to destruction. I do not care who that person is. That person is doomed to destruction.
That is why once evil is named, or even discovered in the life of a true seed of God, he becomes very restive. He stops at nothing until he has, I mean, made it right with God. Is it not true?
When your relationship with God is severed, and you are feeling happy, rejoicing and laughing over it, is the person not doomed to destruction?
Oh! It is just like a woman whose relationship with the husband is strained. They are not having a friendly relationship, and the woman goes about laughing and bragging and glorying.
Is that woman not in hell? She is in hell, but she does not know that she has wandered far. The husband might be keeping quiet watching her.
She does not know she is about to be destroyed, until calamity will befall her. Then, she will know the extent she wandered away from the love of the husband. Is it a lie?
No woman wonders away from the love of the husband, without running into difficulty. So it is.
When you have difficulty with God, check it, you have strayed away from the love of God. I was wondering while meditating in the room, “If we boldly say that God is our righteousness, what do we really mean?”
We mean that we are in right relationship with God. Standing in his presence covered by his love and glory. Is it not true? It is then that we are righteous.
Then what if we walk away from God. It then means the righteousness of God is no longer following us. Walking away from God means walking away from righteousness.
When you walk away from righteousness, where do you land? You land in unrighteousness. You land in the hand of the devil because the moment you leave the presence of God, the devil will welcome you and clothe you with his own garment.
That is why, when you will be doing all those things, the shame will no longer be there. The regret will no longer be there because the devil has already occupied the heart of the person who wandered away from God.
You cannot wander away from God or walk away from His presence without God removing His righteousness because God is righteous.
All that are under Him, covered by His love are declared righteous in His own sight. Is it not true?
When Cain wandered away from God, was he righteous again? Never never!!! When king Saul wandered away from the presence of God, by wandering away from the presence of Prophet Samuel, was he righteous anymore?
So it is with every other human being. We are declared righteous as long as we are standing in the presence of God. Maintaining [oh!] the right relationship. A healthy relationship with God. A relationship that has no question mark.
That is, we are living in obedience to His Words. Then, we are partakers of His righteousness. But the moment you begin to stray away gradually, gradually, let it be known to you that you are now going into unrighteousness, for righteousness is no longer your portion.
Even if you claim it, you are claiming it with the words of the mouth, but God knows you are not having it. Even you, your spirit will tell you that you have forfeited it. You have forfeited it.
So stray away from God, and forfeit God’s righteousness. When you forfeit the righteousness of God, you will embrace the unrighteousness of the devil, for you cannot avoid the two. A man is either righteous or unrighteous. Is it true?
In the book of Proverbs, 15 verse 21, GNB. It is written there that stupid people are always happy with their foolishness, but the wise will do the right thing.
SOM: Amen!!! Brethren have you seen it? Stupid people are always happy with their foolishness. How can foolishness depart from such a person again?
Somebody who takes delight in foolishness and foolish acts. Instead of crying unto the Lord for deliverance, he laughs over it, he sleeps over it and it does not give him concern. Can that person get out of it? He can never get rid of it.
Nothing is right, except what God says and approves.
Amen! Nothing is what? Right! Except what God says and approves. Whatever God says and approves is right because God is right. So nothing is right except that which God says and God has approved.
That is why before we do everything, both in words and in action, we will balance it with what God says concerning what we are trying to do. What has God said? And that is the will of God.
THE WILL OF GOD ON ANY MATTER, IS NOTHING BUT WHAT GOD HAS SAID CONCERNING THAT MATTER, SO THAT WHEN YOU WANT TO ACT CONTRARY, YOU WILL KNOW YOU ARE DOING YOUR WILL WHICH IS THE WILL OF THE DEVIL, AND NO LONGER THE WILL OF GOD. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE?
SO, LET US BE VERY CAREFUL. IF GOD DOES NOT APPROVE OF YOUR BEHAVIOR, IT THEN MEANS YOU ARE IN ERROR. YOU ARE IN ERROR.
In the classroom, after writing your test, what happens? Your teachers will collect the script and then begin to mark. Any one you fail, how do you know that you failed it? You see ‘bad’! [X] He will mark it bad [X].
But when you were writing, you thought you got it right. Is it not true? That is why every man is right in his own eyes. That is what fools people. And that is why God calls such people self-deceived fools. Self-conceited fools.
They are conceited with pride. The pride in them cannot allow them to recognize their errors. So anybody that is filled with the spirit of pride, can hardly recognize and accept his error or her error. He will always laugh at it. Amen. That is why pride goeth before a fall.
9And then wisdom shall be given to the elect, and they shall all live and never again sin, either through forgetfulness or through pride: But those who are given wisdom shall be humble. [Ethiopic Book of Enoch; Chapter 5 verse 9]
You may have your personal opinions over an issue, but once God speaks about it, it is final.
SOM: Period! Who has the final say on any matter? Jehovah. We sing it in our song. SONG: [Can you tell me who has the final say? Jehovah has the final say.]
That is why the people of God [the people of old]; they never did anything without inquiring about the mind of God. They are always interested in knowing what God has said concerning that matter before they will embark on it.
Even if they have done it already, the moment they hear from the mouthpiece of God in their day, “Why did you do this? Why did you do this?”, you see all of them falling prostrate on the floor, that God has found fault with what they did, for God will never take side with error. Can he? Can God take side with error?
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW WHEN GOD IS EVEN ALLOWING THEM TO CONTINUE IN THEIR FOOLISH WAYS. WHEN GOD LOOKS AT YOU, HE TALKS TO YOU MILDLY.
THE MOMENT HE NOTICES THAT YOU ARE NOT READY TO CHANGE YOUR MIND, GOD WILL GRANT YOU ALL THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART THAT ARE EVIL. IT THEN MEANS GOD HAS DISASSOCIATED FROM YOU.
The righteousness of God will no longer follow you. You are on your own, while God is on his own. Moreso, when you have your excuse and your defence. Is there any defence against error? Is there any defence against error?
That is where people err. No matter the reason you want to give, the truth is that you are in error. Error has no defence.
“This is what pushed me into it”. Can God listen to that nonsense? “Look at the condition I found myself and I did this. I was prompted. I was compelled. And I was seduced” Can God listen to that?
This is because, once you are in error, the same person who deceived you, who led you into error, will also help you to manipulate a defence, but he will not tell you that the defence is a weak one that will be unacceptable in the sight of God.
It is in the power of a man to make a defence against error, but has God accepted it? If God has not accepted it, your defence is a defence in nullity. A defence in nullity. Sure dissipation of energy. You just wasted your time!
You see, knowing that to be the truth, every true seed of God who is wise, intelligent and understanding, will do everything within his power, within his capacity to guide himself against error. Is it not true?
It was for that reason that Apostle Luke wrote to Theophilus, as one who was there from the official beginning, seeing that many took it upon themselves to write a chronological report of what they did not see.
They wrote hearsay, but one who was there as a eyewitness, who knew God, saw God, had everything in common with Christ, decided to straighten the record thereby, guiding Theophilus and all that will follow Theophilus against what? Error!
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 you may know the full truth and understand with certainty and 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. [Luke 1”3 – 4 AMP]
HEAR ME VERY WELL. THERE IS A REASON WHY WE MUST BE VERY, VERY CAREFUL. ANYBODY THAT IS IN ERROR, WILL ALWAYS TRY TO INFLUENCE OTHERS TO GO INTO ERROR, SO THAT HE WILL NOT BE PUNISHED ALONE. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE? ONE THAT IS IN ERROR WILL ALWAYS BE PRAYING THAT THERE SHOULD BE ANOTHER PERSON THAT WILL ALSO BE IN ERROR.
Whatever he will do; whatever she will do to make sure he lures somebody into the same error; He will not rest until he has done that. That is why the Bible warned us that we should be very careful that we do not follow the errors of the wicked.
“Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.” (2 Peter 3:17 KJV)
He that continues in error, is wickedness in the sight of God. Is it a lie Brethren? Anybody that is continuing in error, in the sight of God is a wicked fellow. Very wicked! He wants others to be influenced into it.
So a seed of God cannot continue in error. The moment the truth about that matter comes to light, he takes side with the truth. Is it not true? Once he takes side with the truth, he says bye-bye to that error.
Once you notice that My heart is not right with you, you are in trouble. I am also in trouble until we reconcile it. Are you getting what I am saying? That is why Christ came to make reconciliation. Do we have Christ in our midst? The essence of Christ appearing is to reconcile us unto God. Unless you are reconciled to God the promises of God will never be realized, for you cannot realize the promises of God when you are still working against the interest of God.
FORGIVENESS; Preached on Sunday 6th January 2008 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 118 vs. 24
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PROMOTE CHRIST ABOVE SELF INTEREST [1]
If we reject the ways of God, and try to establish our own ways due to self-interest,… Self what? Interest. …we must land ourselves in error.
If we reject the ways of God, and try to establish our own ways due to self-interest, we must land ourselves in error.
Self-interest is that which a man wants for himself by the dictates of his own heart. Pure truth!
I repeat. Self-interest is that which a man wants for himself, by the dictates of his own heart.
SOM: When we say a man, we mean human beings, both man and woman. Good.
In a situation where one is calling for refreshment, another is calling for assignment and the other is calling for a dismissal, and no one is mindful of what God is saying; In a situation like this, whose interest will prevail?
SOM: God’s interest!
The Scriptures says that the wise will do the right thing. Which one is the right thing and who is holding the right thing?
I strongly believe that it is only God that knows what is right and good for us at all times. What God wants us to do at any moment should form our collective interest. Amen!
Not what the devil wants us to do! Not what the devil wants us to do! What God wants us to do at any moment should form our collective interest.
SOM: I hope we are paying attention in this Family. We must have a common interest in this Family. And then, protect it with godly jealousy, that as long as God liveth and we live, we must do that which God wants us to do.
By so doing, we have closed our hearts against the devil. He will no longer operate. When you are desirous of doing the will of God at all times, is there any room for the devil again? Never!
We have to forsake our own individual interest and follow God. Follow God in your brother…
SOM: Which is very difficult for some people. To do away with their personal interest and follow the will of God, is very difficult for many people. A sure sign that they do not belong to God. The fear of God is not in them.
And when they hear the Almighty God speak over their error, they do not tremble with fear. They do not tremble. Rather, they will say like Eli, “He is the Almighty God, whatever that he wants to do, let him do it.” He is God, whatever he wishes to do, let him do.
18And Samuel told him everything, hiding nothing. And Eli said, It is the Lord; let Him do what seems good to Him. [1 Samuel 3:17 AMP]
And that is why God will hear that statement, document it and take record of it immediately.
When God will visit it, it will not be that time the statement was made. It is when the person who made it must have forgotten everything about it. It can be ten years. It can be twenty.
And the Lord will visit that statement. And when the Lord begins to visit that statement, only those who knew about the matter will know that the matter has, at last, been visited by the Almighty God.
Look at how God passed judgment against the house of Eli. Did he visit them immediately?
11The Lord told Samuel, Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which both ears of all who hear it shall tingle. 12On that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.
13And I [now] announce to him that I will judge and punish his house forever for the iniquity of which he knew, for his sons were bringing a curse upon themselves [blaspheming God], and he did not restrain them.
14Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be atoned for or purged with sacrifice or offering forever. [1 Samuel 3:11 – 14 AMP]
Even the prophet God used, Elijah, died. Many years after, God remembered that a death sentence was hanging on the family of Eli. God came up one morning, and executed righteous judgment against the family of Eli.
34And what befalls your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be a sign to you–in one day they both shall die. [1 Sam 2:34 AMP]
11And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain. [1 Samuel 4:11 AMP]
17The messenger replied, Israel fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is captured. 18And when he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell off the seat backward by the side of the gate. His neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years. [1 Samuel 4:17 – 18 AMP]
That is why we should be very, very careful that we do not walk in a way as to provoke God to speak in a harsh manner or to proclaim something that is evil, on our heads.
Though it tarries, God will never forget it. One day, He will remember it and come to execute it. We fear Allah because He is very swift in taking records.
So if you are quick to talk, quick to react, let it be known to you that you are having dealings with the Almighty God, who is also very, very swift in taking records. And Allah, does not forget. Allah does not forget.
We have to forsake our own individual interest and follow God. Follow God in your brother. Follow God in your sister. Follow God in your Ministers. And follow God in everything.
ANY MAN THAT CANNOT FORSAKE HIS OWN WAYS AND FOLLOW GOD, IS LIVING IN BONDAGE.
Amen! The devil is holding the person captive through his personal selfish interest. Is it not true?
The devil is capitalizing on the person’s interest. That thing that gives him joy, which is the delight of his soul, the devil capitalizes on that, and then holds him captive.
Any man that cannot forsake his own ways and follow God is living in bondage. It is only love that can set him free. He has to love God to the extent of trusting that only the ways of God is right for him at all times.
I repeat. Any man that cannot forsake his own ways and follow God, is living in bondage.
It is only love that can set him free. He has to love God to the extent of trusting that only the ways of God is right for him at all times. Amen!
Naturally speaking, if you love someone, you doubt nothing about the person.
SOM: You do not have anything called “but”. You cannot say, “I love you, but.” Did you get the message? If you say, “I love God but”, you have nullified everything. You love God, and you do not have any reason why you love God, for He is your God, your creator and your maker.
So love is a debt we own even to our fellow human beings. If I say, “I love you but”, do I love you?
8Keep out of debt and owe no man anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbour [who practices loving others] has fulfilled the Law [relating to one’s fellowmen, meeting all its requirements]. [Romans 13:8]
So, you see, that is what we are seeing in this Faith. Many say they love God, but. God cannot share his love with the devil. That ‘but’ means that you are yet undecided. It means indecision. It means doubt. And it means hypocrisy. Is it not true?
He that says he loves ‘but’, is a hypocrite. It is either you love, or you hate. You cannot add ‘but’. Amen. When God loves us, did He add ‘but’? Good!
Naturally speaking, if you love someone, you doubt nothing about the person. There is always that belief in you that everything about the person, is good for you. Hence, the willingness is always there to do the person’s will.
CAN WE LOVE GOD IN THIS WAY, WHERE WE WILL BE WILLING TO DO HIS OWN WILL AT ALL TIMES?
Before the Lord Jesus Christ commanded Peter to feed His flock, he first of all asked him, “Peter do you love Me?”
IT IS THE LOVE A MAN HAS FOR A THING THAT MAKES HIM TO SUBSCRIBE EASILY TO ITS DEMANDS WITHOUT BEING FORCED.
We should love God even more than our own selves. It was God who first loved us… We should do what? Love God even more than our own selves.
Is it not Scriptures? Is it not scriptures? The Bible enjoins us to love God with all our hearts, all our strength, all our might. The totality of what makes us human beings is what we must employ in loving God.
Jesus said unto him, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” (Mathew 22:37 KJV)
Anything contrary to it, is zero. It is rubbish and is unacceptable in the sight of God.
And whoever that loves God to that extent, believing God is made easy. Obeying Him is made easy. He is the one that will discover that God’s thoughts towards mankind has always been the thoughts of good and not of evil, to give a human being a better standing than he is thinking for himself, for God alone knows what is best for us at all times.
11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. [Jeremiah 29:11 KJV]
No man knows what is best for himself. No woman knows what is best for herself. We just make ordinary claims, “I know more than that. I know more than that. Am I still a kid? I know what I want.”
That which you want, is it the will of God for you, or the will of the devil for you? Whose will are you fulfilling? You cannot fulfil the will of the devil and expect a reward from God.
You expect eternal life from God when you love the devil with all your heart, with all your intent, and everything in you is gearing towards loving and appreciating the devil and his works. Is it not true?
You love the devil and all his works! That is where your heart, mind and everything is! Is that not from where you will receive your reward?
What will you receive? Eternal death! Is the reward for sin not eternal death? Is the reward for disobedience to God not eternal death?
The reward of grace, is it not eternal life? The reward of the grace of God is eternal life.
We should love God even more than our own selves. It was God who first loved us. God chose us from all the people on earth to be his own special people. He paid the penalty for our sins and placed us in right standing with himself.
We should do nothing except by God and for God. We must stop presenting our own selves to the people. Let us present God to the people.
A foolish man defends his personal ego, while a wise man defends his belief.
A foolish man defends his personal ego, while a wise man defends his belief.
And our belief is that something is good because God says it is good; And something is bad because God says it is bad.
Anything you do outside the will of God, is error. Avoid it. There is no glory in it. Do that which God said you should do, and you will be happy you did that.
SOM: Amen!!! Nobody obeys God and receives indictment or rebuke from God. The moment you obey God, you will receive praise. You will receive commendation. Is it not true? Good! So it is!
There is no child that is obedient to the parents that is persecuted. Rather, the parents will be praising him and encouraging him to continue in his lifestyle. Anyone told to drop his lifestyle, is it not a bad lifestyle? “Continue in your lifestyle” means that the lifestyle is good.
But a foolish fellow, once he is in error, no matter how you try to cause him to drop that thing, he will never. That is why, “Let favour be shown to the foolish; let favour be shown to the foolish”, the Bible said, “He or she will never appreciate it. Even in the land of the upright, he or she will still do ungodly.
10Let favour be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. [Isaiah 26:10 KJV]
DO YOU KNOW THAT PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW WHEN GOD IS GRANTING THEM THEIR OWN SELFISH INTEREST? THEY DO NOT KNOW WHEN GOD IS GRANTING THEM THEIR OWN SELF-STYLED WILL.
13Any day THE SON OF MAN begins to approve for you things that run contrary to teaching, that will make you to compete with the world, THE SON OF MAN has already rejected you. [BE CONSCIOUS OF THE HOUR YOU ARE LIVING IN; Preached on Sunday, 3rd December, 2017; Pg. 102 vs. 13]
WHEN GOD NOTICES THAT THEY HAVE MADE UP THEIR MINDS ON THE WAY THEY WANT TO GO, THERE IS NO NEED FOOLING HIMSELF, KNOWING THAT THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE.
THEY WILL NOT COOPERATE WITH GOD BECAUSE THEY HAVE MADE UP THEIR MINDS ON THE WAY THEY WANT TO LIVE THEIR LIVES. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO GO THERE.
THAT IS WHY ALLAH WILL ONLY LEAD ASTRAY THOSE THAT HAVE STRAYED AWAY FROM ALLAH AND REFUSED TO RETURN. IS IT NOT THE HOLY QUR’AN?
“By it He causes many to stray, and many He leads into the right path; but He causes not to stray, except those who forsake (the path), (Surah 2:26).
“Thus doth Allah leave to stray such as transgress and live in doubt. (Surah 40:34).
So when you stray away from Allah and refuse to return when Allah speaks, He said “Allah will now help you to stray away more and more until Allah guides you into eternal hell fire. But those who returned to Allah, Allah will guide them safely into the garden that flows with milk and honey; That is Paradise.”
THE SON OF MAN is not even interested in your human plan, but when your human plan puts you into trouble, do not come to Him. There is nothing you are planning which I, THE SON OF MAN, Apostle Peter Odoemena do not know. There is nothing you have done which I do not know and the way you have done it. That I have allowed you time is because I have decided to do so. Any day I want to stop you, I will stop you without consultation. The truth of the matter is that you liken this Faith to one of those churches your fathers knew and introduced you to. No! This Church are handpicked individuals.
BE DILIGENT TO PROTECT YOUR MINDSET (EXPLAINED); preached on 18th March, 2012; Pg. 108 vs. 37 – 38
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PROMOTE CHRIST ABOVE SELF INTEREST [2]
From chapter one, we have seen what it means to walk in error. We have seen the dangers of walking in error and the dangers of having our own self-interest at heart, not having God’s own interest. Let us move to chapter three.
SOM: Placing our self-interest before the will of God, we are anxious to fulfil our own self-styled interest to the neglect of God’s own will. Is it a lie?
And that is what is putting us into trouble. But why do we find ourselves in such situations? It is when we exalt our self-ego above our belief. Is it not true?
For example, a woman that exalts her beauty above her belief will run into difficulty with human beings [with both men and fellow women].
So it is with a man. When a man exalts money, wealth, popularity, above his believe, oh no!, he can do unimaginable things to protect that self-ego. Is it not true? I hope I am making sense?
Hear me very well. Whatever that promotes a man’s self-ego, nullifies the man’s belief. I say nullifies, makes the man’s belief of none effect.
God said we should promote our belief above our self-ego. Promote your belief above your pride and above your self-esteem.
Promote Christ which is your belief. Promote God’s righteousness. Promote right living and upright relationship with God. Promote it above your own selfishness.
But unfortunately, anybody that is in the hand of the devil can never realize that he has a belief to protect. Is it not true? When you are in captivity in the hand of the devil, your belief is of none effect.
You can never remember you believe anything again because, wherever you are, you will try to hide your belief. Whoever that hides his belief, hides his identity. Is it not true?
You cannot hide away your identity without identifying with your enemy. Is it a lie? When you hide your identity from your enemy, you become one with your enemy. If I hide my identity from the people in the world, am I not one with them?
Chapter three says, OBEY GOD’S WORD’S. We will never be found in transgression, until we begin to operate according to the dictates of our own hearts, due to self-interest.
Remember, self-interest has been defined as that which a man wants for himself by the dictates of his own heart.
Somebody who was given a wiser counsel, a better plan than what he has put in place, and yet prefers his own idea. Such a person has been blinded by his own personal interest against any better option. Pure truth.
I repeat it. Somebody who was given a wiser counsel, a better plan than what he has put in place, and yet prefers his own idea. Such a person has been blinded by his own personal interest against any better option.
It is when that which a man wants for himself fails him; that is when regret will set in, in him. It is what?
…when that which a man wants for himself fails him that is when regret will set in, in him. When regret sets in, in a man, repentance will be staring him in the face.
When what? Regret sets in, in a man, knowing that he has been found in error, what happens? Repentance will be staring him at the face.
When a man repents, he will then move forward in total submission to a rejected wiser counsel. The counsel which was given to him in the first place, which he rejected.
When, after the rejection of that counsel, it now fails him, you see what? Repentance staring him at the face, and when he repents, he now goes back to obey that wiser counsel that was given to him earlier.
I repeat it again. It is when that which a man wants for himself fails him that is when regret will set in him.
When regret sets in, in a man, repentance will be staring him in the face. When a man repents, he will then move forward in total submission to a rejected wiser counsel. Sure!
It is the rejected word that he will obey at last.
SOM: That is, if he survives! Some will say I am as God made me. Which God made you? You are what you have decided to make yourself because you have known the truth. Good. You have known the truth.
Avoid self-interest when you come to God. That thing which you want for yourself, irrespective of what God is saying, that same thing will bring you to judgment before God.
Avoid what?
Avoid self-interest when you come to God. That thing which you want for yourself, irrespective of what God is saying… concerning that matter. …that same thing will bring you to judgment before God.
If God does not tamper justice with mercy, he will crush you because, at the judgment seat of God, it is only what He says that counts.
SOM: At that judgment seat, only what God says counts. Not what you think or the way you feel. Your defense is rubbish.
Adam and Eve never emerged victorious in judgment before God. Never!!! In spite of their excuses, God respected only His word, and sent them away from glory.
Almighty God commanded them in Genesis chapter 2 verse 15 – 17, that they must not eat of the fruit of the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad. And that any day they eat it, they will surely die. Taken from Good News Bible.
15Then the LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and guard it. 16He told him, You may eat of the fruit of any tree in the garden, 17except the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad. you must not eat the fruit of that tree; if you do, you will de the same day. [Genesis 2:15 – 17 GNB]
Eve who blamed her own failure on the so called “snake” was seen admiring that same tree in verse 6 of Genesis chapter 3.
The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and good the fruit would be to eat, and she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he also ate it. [Genesis 3:6 GNB]
If you show no interest in a thing, you cannot be deceived into it. What? If you show no interest in a thing, you cannot be deceived into it.
SOM: If you believe it, say amen. For you to be deceived into anything or into doing anything that is contrary to the truth which has been evidently set out before you, your interest is fixed there. Is it a lie? Very clear, as clear as the day.
If you show no interest in a thing, you cannot be deceived into it. Eve went for what her own heart thought was good for her. She respected only the thoughts of her own heart, until she subscribed to it.
God has good intentions towards us. Do not allow your heart to deceive you into thinking that God asking you not to eat banana means that he wants the banana all for Himself alone.
I repeat that place again. If you show no interest in a thing, you cannot be deceived into it.
Eve went for what her own heart thought was good for her. She respected only the thoughts of her own heart until she subscribed to it.
God has good intentions towards us. Do not allow your heart to deceive you into thinking that God asking you not to eat banana means that He wants the banana all for himself alone.
SOM: Or that He wants to monopolize it.
Eve said that “the snake” deceived her, but the Scriptures said that the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. Who can know it!
The cause of a man’s problem is not too far away from him. What! The cause of a man’s problem is not too far away from him.
SOM: It is not too far from that person. The cause of My problem is not too far away from me. The cause of your problem is not too far away from you.
The cause of a man’s problem,… the cause of my own problem, put your name there. …is not too far away from me.
SOM: Stop looking for where you are going to push it to. Do not push it to anything, to any circumstance, to any condition, or to this and that. It is a lie! I say, it is a lie!
The cause of anybody’s problem is not far from that person. Have I not been telling you? Man is his own greatest problem. Man’s greatest enemy has remained himself.
If you can never conquer “self”, you are not qualified to serve God. Whoever that must serve God acceptably, must first of all strive to conquer “self”. Bury self and then you can now serve God.
As long as that “self” is still alive, at work and very active in you, forget about serving God. You will always be gratifying your own self. You will always be working towards gratifying yourself.
In everything we do, even if it is in our work place where you work and you get money. that money will be for self-gratification. Is it not true?
That is the cause of problems in all families! Is money not the problem? Why is money the root of all the problems? Somebody who has the privileged to get that money cannot use it judiciously.
The person will always use it to gratify oneself. After all, are you suffering with him! How can he give you the money after all his sufferings? Is it a lie? Is that not the cause? Good!
You must bury self. That is why to serve God requires self-sacrifice. It takes a self-sacrificing individual, to render acceptable service to God. Is it not contained in our Messages and even in the Holy Qur’an that only those self-sacrificing believers will inherit paradise.
This is because Paradise must cost you something. Number one, it will cost you that your self-ego, self-pride and selfish interest, just to mention but a few.
Misconception leads to misapplication, whether you believe it or not. That is why you must learn to adjust your mind-set very properly, and then shun all forms of personal interpretations of the Message, for the Message interprets itself. EVERY INTERPRETATION YOU GIVE TO THIS MESSAGE MUST REFLECT IN YPOUR CHARACTER. SO, THE FIRST NOTICEABLE APPLICATION OF THE MESSAGE IS MADE VISIBLE IN YOUR CHARACTER, YOUR ATTITUDE. YOU CANNOT SUPPRESS IT, FOR YOUR CHARACTER REVEALS WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
THE YEAR OF JUDGMENT OF THE BRIDE [2018 NEW YEAR MESSAGE] VOLUME 1; Preached on Sunday 7th January, 2018 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Page 47 verse 29 to 30
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BEWARE OF SPIRITUAL VIRUS [1]
Our inability to say no to anything that will come in between us and obedience to God’s word, has always made us victims of evil circumstances. Rewind it again.
Our inability, [my inability] to say no to anything that will come in between me and obedience to God’s word, has always made me a victim of evil circumstances.
SOM: Repeat it again the third time.
My inability,… [you put your own name there] Our inability to say no to anything that will come in between us and obedience to God’s words, has always made us victims of evil circumstances. True or false? Pure truth!
Our inability to say no to anything that will come in between us and obedience to God’s words, has always made us victims of evil circumstances.
That is why God gave us the Message, that we should do what? Close the door of your heart against your known enemy. Your known enemy.
Who is your known enemy? We have one common enemy. That thing that will hinder you from doing the will of God, whether it is selfishness, over protection of self-ego, pride, envy, jealousy, love of money, love of the world and every other thing like that. It varies from one individual to another. Is it not true?
So this night, like I told some who were calling Me, and I said, “No! We started in the morning and we are continuing this evening.” It is still that same topic that is continuing.
How we ought to block, lock up our hearts against our known enemy, for once we allow it to gain entry, we are doomed. You allow your enemy to gain entry into your house, will he leave your house empty handed?
There is no way the devil can be allowed to gain entry into a man’s heart without leaving that person devastated. That is why after rubbishing that person, you can hardly believe that the person has heard the Word of God before. The person becomes an empty barrel, which has been the desire of the devil.
Remember it comes into the man’s heart as virus. Spiritual virus! It comes in as a spiritual virus to erase the knowledge of the truth, the knowledge of God, the fear of God, the respect for God and the reverence for God which a man has acquired over the years.
The virus comes to erase all, so that the person becomes an empty vessel now to domicile and to be possessed by the devil; To be fully possessed by the devil.
When you see one that is possessed after knowing the truth, oh! You can hardly believe it. In short, you will hate that word “backslide”; To backslide? God forbid.
Consider a situation where Peter made a statement that Jesus said to him, “Get away from me Satan” [Matthew 16 verse 22 -23, GNB].
22Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “God forbid it, Lord!” he said. “That must never happen to you!” 23Jesus turned around and said to Peter, “Get away from me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my way, because these thoughts of yours don’t come from God, but from human nature [Matthew 16:22 – 23 GNB]
In verse 23 of Mathew chapter 16, it is written there that Jesus turned around and said to Peter, “Get away from me Satan! You are an obstacle in my way because these thoughts of yours do not come from God but from man.”
Always be mindful of what God has commanded you to do. Rewind that Scripture again.
In verse 23 of Mathew chapter 16, it is written there that Jesus turned around and said to Peter, “Get away from me Satan! You are an obstacle in my way.
SOM: Stop running around me Peter! I am fed up with your running around me hypocritically, calling me “Daddy” and calling me “Son of Man, I bow. Take your bow. This and that.” Peter! Get away from my sight. You have become a big obstacle I can no longer tolerate. Yes! An obstacle on My way. “Get away from me Satan…”
You see what the devil is trying to constitute a big obstacle. We heard it in the morning. True or false?
“Get away from me Satan! You are an obstacle in my way because these thoughts of yours do not come from God…”
SOM: These thoughts of yours do not come from God. Once it does not come from God, it comes from the devil.
You see why, if you are harbouring any thought, any imagination, any feeling, please I am begging all of you in this family, forget about what is happening in other families. Be very conscious of your own family where you are right now. It is from here to heaven, or from here to hell. Even if others are not believing, leave them alone in their unbelief.
But lift up a standard here that your thoughts, your imaginations, your feelings must agree with thus sayeth the Lord or do not harbour it. Did you get the Message?
Watch! Thoughts, feelings and imaginations. These are the three express ways, crafty ways whereby the devil finds access into a man’s mind and into a man’s heart. It is from your mind to your heart.
And once the devil domiciles there with all these things that he injected into you, it has become a very powerful virus that will open all the files you have. All the documents and the useful information in your heart will completely be erased.
Even, everything about the feeling of godliness will vanish. That individual has nothing to do with godliness again because the devil has rubbished that person. Did you get the Message?
Always be mindful of what God has commanded you to do. Be mindful of what? Do what God has commanded you to do! Period!
Do it for that is the only way you can be free from blame.
SOM: That is the only way you can be free from blame. When you hear, “Walking blamelessly before the Lord”, it means doing everything at the command of the Lord. You run away from being blamed. You walk blamelessly before the Lord.
That is why the Bible says we should disregard and cast away all hidden works of dishonesty, and then anything that will bring blame will make God ask us why.
“But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but, by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.” (2 Corinthians 4:2 KJV)
That way, you place yourself in danger of entertaining the question on why you have not done this. Look at the question God asked Balam, “Balam who are these people in your house?” Did you get the Message?
Who are these people that are passing the night with you in your house? Who are these people you are walking on the way with? Who are these people you are sleeping in the bed with?
Who is this man? Who is this woman? Who are these people you are having interactions with? Who are these people you are milling around with?
You see, God knows us. He knows all our doings. He knows everything about our going out and our coming in. If God will ask you that question, “Who are these people you are mingling yourself with?”, what will be your answer?
This is because evil communication spoils good character. You can never befriend a leper, and avoid his handshake.
Why do we run into difficulty with our belief or our faith in the hands of the heathens? It is when we conceal our identity. When we hide who we are and what we believe, we loose our security. Is it not true?
This Faith is our security. When you protect this Faith, this Faith will protect you. Is it not true?
When you walk towards destroying your belief by denying your belief, you will become a toy in the hand of the devil. Did you get the Message?
The devil who knows when you have lowered down the bar, when you have dropped your belief, and you now want to mingle with the people, will bring somebody who is desiring to have anything affair with you.
The devil will hand you over to one that is his agent, who is readily available to take you, man or woman. If you are a man, he will hand you over to a ready and waiting woman, simply because you have lost what made you beautiful. Is it a lie?
When an eagle loses what makes it fine, its beauty will be lost. Is it a lie? Do you not hear the saying that when a woman loses that which makes her beautiful, her beauty will be lost.
A woman has only but one prestige. Any day that prestige is lost, the woman is lost. The woman becomes ordinary chaff. Is it a lie?
A man has his own prestige to protect. So when somebody takes away your pride, if you are a woman, you lose your pride, and you feel happy, you are an idiot. In the same way, a man can never lose his pride and feel happy.
If my pride is Christ, and I lose Christ, will the devil be my pride? Have you understood where we are heading to?
That is why when a woman loses her pride, if she is a virtuous woman, she sorrows. Moreso, after losing that pride, and that person who took away the pride will now turn round to reproach her, to avoid her and to drop her. She will weep;
“Oh! If I had known, I would not have sold my pride to this silly man. Look at what I am coming out with! Shame, humiliation, and disgrace of the highest degree.” I hope I am making sense.
Always be mindful of what God has commanded you to do.
SOM: Be mindful of what God has commanded you to do. That is, be mindful of the Words, be mindful of what God has spoken concerning any matter before indulging into it. Is it a lie?
Be mindful of what God has spoken concerning any matter before indulging in it. Or else, tears and broken heart will result! Is it a lie?
You may not even come back again because the devil may not allow you to go. Then, you have entered into a second captivity in the hand of the devil.
Let Me tell you. From time to time, ask yourself whether you are still holding unto the Faith you are professing; whether you are still holding on to the truth about this Bridal Faith, or you have strayed away, because it is easy to backslide. Once step away from this truth, you are no longer with God, and God is no longer with you. Amen. …… I am saying that a true seed of God has a sieve. A spiritual sieve God moulded and inserted there. And we call it believing heart to believe the truth. Whatever you are seeing in a civilized world, there is the spirit of truth in you that does the sifting, selecting that which is approved of God and rejecting that which is not approved of God.
COPING WITH A REBELLIOUS CHILD EXPLAINED VOLUME 1: Preached on Sunday 7th May, 2017 Pg. 59 vs. 45 & Pg. 66 vs. 24
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BEWARE OF SPIRITUAL VIRUS [2]
Always be mindful of what God has commanded you to do. Do it for that is the only way you can be free from blame.
In 1 Samuel chapter 15 verse 3, God never demanded any sacrifice from King Saul, but he chose to offer some sacrifice to God in the interest of his friends.
The Almighty God said to him, “Go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have. Do not leave a thing. Kill all the men, women, children and babies; the cattle, sheep, camels and donkeys.
From 1 Samuel chapter 15 verse 3, GNB. In verse 20 of 1 Samuel chapter 15, King Saul said that he actually destroyed all the Amalekites, but that he brought only one person, which is their king Agag. Was this the instruction?
SOM: No! He brought also some cattle, some sheep, pretending he will use them to offer sacrifice to God in the temple. Did God command him to do that? Can you imagine using something you got dishonestly to serve the Lord. Can God accept it? Is God stupid?
You got something dishonestly, and you use it to sacrifice to God. Will you give to God what you stole or the one you acquired from prostitution? Will you use something you acquired dubiously to offer to God?
You are bringing more condemnations to yourself because whatever we are doing in this life, whether good or bad, God is seeing all. Even the way we are making money, God knows how we are making money. Whether we are making it honestly or dishonestly, God knows all.
There is nothing hidden before God. You can hide it away from everybody, but can you hide it away from God? That is why when God speaks, every man will keep quiet. Any man who speaks when God is speaking, is a beast. It takes the devil to speak when God is speaking.
IF GOD IS TALKING ON AN ISSUE, AND YOU KNOW GOD CANNOT ACCUSE ANY MAN FALSELY; GOD IS TALKING, AND YOU ARE TALKING BACK TO GOD, YOU HAVE BECOME ANOTHER LUCIFER. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? IT TAKES LUCIFER TO COUNTER GOD’S WORD IN HIS FACE OR BEHIND GOD. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE?
God asked Cain a question. Remember, Cain was serpent’s seed, for the Bible said, “Be was born by the treacherous one.”
“Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous”. (1 John 3:12 KJV)
Cain where is your brother Abel? He retorted, “Why are you asking me this silly question. Am I my brother’s keeper?” Tell me whether there could be one born of God who can react that way. Impossible! Amen.
There are too many serpent seeds in this Bridal Faith. We are small in number, but mighty in action. I am telling you the whole truth. In our mist, what is abundant is “Small but mighty! Small but mighty!”
It will take God to reveal to mankind what is happening in our homes, in our secret closets, in our bedrooms and wherever we find ourselves. It will take God to reveal it.
But will He reveal all? Yes! He will reveal all, for the Bible said, “The day will reveal all things.” God will reveal all the hidden works of darkness and all dishonest ways.
13every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. [1 Corinthians 3:13 KJV]
If He [God] does not reveal all, what makes Him a just and upright judge? He is a just and upright judge, and does not spare iniquity. He does not spare iniquity, he does not spare any error.
Tell Me any error that God spared, without bringing that person to judgment. This is because He is of a purer eyes than to behold iniquity. Behold means accommodate iniquity or identify with evil. Can God identify with evil? Never, never, never!
Many are trying to corner God to their side, so that God will be a partaker of their evil. Can God be a partaker of our evil? No!
In verse 21 [2 Samuel chapter 15], he even included the part that his soldiers took the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice them to God at Gilgal. Can a man please God in disobedience?
Notice what he said to Samuel in verse 24. He said, “Yes! I have sinned. I have disobeyed the Lord’s command and your instructions. I was afraid of my men and did what they wanted.” GNB.
Did you see what happened there? He acknowledged his sin. He did not fight back, but look at the foolish reason. “I have sinned. I have done wrong. I have disobeyed your instructions. My reason is this, “I was afraid of my friends and I did what my friends wanted.””
Is it not a foolish man that will do things that will please fellow human beings to the hurt of his own soul?
10For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. [Galatians 1:10 KJV]
Check for it! Is it better to please your friends and displease God? To please your flesh and displease God? I better lose my place of employment.
That is why I still hold my head high in the Federal Ministry of Labour, where I confronted and they confronted Me with religious vices in that office, and I lifted my banner. The Lord stood behind Me and gave Me the victory.
All of them now are behind. They are all in the graves, but I am still standing here proclaiming this truth, when all of them have been buried.
That is why God said, “The righteous will live and march on the ashes of the wicked.”
3And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts. [Malachi 4:3 KJV]
Do not worry. I have told the Elders to get ready because the hour has come for them to begin to bury their loved ones who are living in error without their knowledge.
The hour has come. Do not worry. With time now, you will begin to see what I said. I am not threatening anybody. Neither am I taking delight in the death of such people who are living hypocritical lives in our midst, causing this Faith to be blasphemed among the heathens.
We have our own colony. Is it not true? We have a colony. We have our nation. This grace, grace, grace, is among us. Is it not true?
Whatever we want to practice must be among us as believers and as children of God, for we have our limitations. But the moment we jump away, we break the fence. Is it not true?
Where do we land? We will land outside. When we land outside, we have jumped into a place where the love of God and Grace of God can no longer reach and protect us again.
William Branham said that all of us are inside, but the devil is outside. The devil can never come in to come and attack us, but we can jump out and meet the devil out there. Is it a lie?
When you deny your Faith, deny your belief and hide your identity, oh no! Can you call God to come and protect you? Somebody that constructs his house in the river catchment area, can he call government to come and protect him from flooding?
He that constructed a building along water ways, will he call the Government to come to his rescue when the house is flooded? When he was constructing it, was he not warned? He wanted to colonize the whole land. He has succeeded! That was how Lot colonized Sodom and Gomorrah.
Saul was afraid of his men, but he was not afraid of God. …
Who are you afraid of? He was afraid of his men, but not afraid of God. The same thing happened to Aaron. Aaron did a similar thing, pleasing men rather than God.
Judge for yourselves! How do you love men more than God? Why do you want to please men more than God? What are they offering you greater than what God is offering you?
Tell me what you are gaining from heathens that is greater than what you are gaining from God. Did you get the message?
That is our condemnation, for whatever the heathens are offering you, is just temporary and for a moment. The moment they see your nudity [your nakedness], you are lost.
They noticed you are empty barrel and that you are merely professing godliness with your mouth. The spirit is not there. And they will write you off immediately. He has taken the one he wants and has dismissed you. You will be mourning. Heart break will come. Did you get the message?
Let us be very careful. It is better to please God than to please man. Let us not sacrifice the word of God at the altar of self-interest. Amen. Let us not do what?
Let us not sacrifice the word of God… Let us not sacrifice our belief, the Word of God, our belief in the Word of God. Let us not sacrifice our belief in the truth and our belief in Christ at the altar of satisfying men and women. Oh! I do not know what to say again.
Sacrifice it at the altar of satisfying your selfish interest, which will give you only but a temporary happiness that will not last long. Then, sorrow will now fill your heart. Regret will fill your heart. You feel like sinking. I hope I am talking to all of us.
You see why this Family must be a role model. Number one Family. All hands must be on deck. Join hands with Me. Cooperate with God, and then, let us lift up a very high standard above all the antics of the devil.
This is because God is the chiefest of all the planners. While the devil is planning, God is also planning ahead.
30Remember how the Unbelievers plotted against thee, to keep thee in bonds, or slay thee, or get thee out (of thy home). They plot and plan, and Allah too plans; but the best of planners is Allah. [The Holy Qur’an: Surah 8:30, Abdullah Yusuf Ali Translation. Also found in Surah 3:54]
I am preparing you ahead, so that you will always remain ahead.
Any interest that is outside the will of God, is from self. The aim is to please man and not God.
SOM: Anything that is from self is satanic, for Satan was the first that exalted himself, saying that he will be above God. He will establish his own throne in the heavens, above the Almighty God. God then called off the bluff. When a girl is growing, it will as if she will overgrow her mother.
In every situation let us try to operate from God’s own point of view.
Respect every man’s view, in the sense that every man is entitled to his or her own opinion, but accept and live by God’s own point of view. But do what? Accept and live by God’s own point of view. That is final. Amen!!!
SOM: If you go back to the Message titled “Lean not on your own understanding”, it said, trust not in yourself, for you are going to disappoint yourself. All that trusted in themselves, did they not disappoint themselves?
But when you trust in God, you will never be disappointed. Self has been proved to have disappointed many people. Self-pride, self-esteem, self this and self this. Oh! May God help us to get rid of self! I hope I am making sense? Get rid of what? Self! And then place Christ first.
PLACE CHRIST FIRST. AFTER ALL, I GAVE YOU THE MESSAGE “IN THE BEGINNING, GOD.” GOD MUST TAKE THE FIRST POSITION IN EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE. IF IT IS NOT GOD, IT IS NOT GOD. IF IT IS LIKE GOD, IT IS NOT GOD.
BUT WHEN WE PLACE SELF FIRST, SELF-SATISFACTION, SELF-MATERIALISM, SELF-PRIDE, SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT, WHERE DO WE END IT.
We become another domestic bird, turkey, whixh is so proud and full of itself. Where is the pride taken us to? Turkey pride! Where is it taking you to? Did you get the Message?
Turkey is always showcasing and priding itself about. That will be like Lizards pride. If you watch a lizard nodding his head, it will feel that it is meat. How many pursue it for meat? Are you getting Me?
Do you not watch lizard displaying, thinking that it is meat! How many people have prized it in the market? How many people ran short of money and looked for lizard for money making?
How many have cooked it for food? Am I making sense? If lizard is food, will it be coming close to people? Every person should be careful!
PRACTICE WHAT YOU BELIEVE
Brethren we have accepted God as our final authority, therefore we must practice all the ‘Yes Sir’ and ‘Amen’ that are in God. M-U-S-T. If you say ‘yes sir’, it means you are confirming the truth, you are acknowledging it. You say Amen, you are saying, ‘so be it Lord’, because you have confirmed it.
You know it is authentic, you know it is worthy of acceptance. Is it not true? It is worthy of obedience. Then if you do not practice it, you are in danger of being called to question. Whatever that will make you not to put the word of God into action, does it love you? That thing is your greatest enemy.
We are the children of God, the rest of the world are under the power and control of the devil. The rest of the world. God is referring to human beings. There is no entity called the world. The rest of the human beings, no matter how pious they look. As long as they are not having the faith of Christ, they are in the hands of the devil.
So you see, do you not know it is the height of foolishness for somebody who is in the hand of God, who knows the truth, to migrate over night following the thoughts, and imaginations and feelings of his or her heart. To satisfy his or her selfish cravings, he will now leave the kingdom of righteousness and then jump into the dark to embrace a man or a woman that is living in the dark. Who does not have any value or virtue to protect!
Do you know that one that is not in Christ, is a worthless fellow? Is it not true? One that is unprofitable in all things. That is why, if you are a son of God, you must be very careful that you do not sell off your pride to a daughter of the devil, Jezebels daughter out there. If you are a daughter of Christ, be very careful that you do not sell off your pride to a son of Satan out there.
For that means ridiculing your God. Is it not true? When Diana strayed away, did she not ridicule the God of Israel? Ridiculed her belief, ridiculed her family? Because immediately she strayed away, those children of Belial captured her. They captured her, for they are always waiting the children of God. Do you believe that?
All this Satan’s children are out there waiting for real sons and daughters of God that will escape from the kingdom of God that they may capture them. What I am telling you is truth.
If you watch Sarah at a very old age, Abraham took Sarah to Egypt and denied his belief, denied the wife, calling the wife his sister. What happened? A fellow that was waiting for a Jewess captured her. A fellow waiting for a Jewess, captured her. If not divine intervention, Sarah would have sold off her pride to a heathen, an uncircumcised heathen. God’s greatest enemy. May God help us!
GOD HAS GIVEN US THE TRUTH. IT IS NOW LEFT FOR YOU TO TAKE THE DECISION, WHEN YOU STOP RESISTING THE TRUTH AND THEN TURN OVER TO A NEW LEAF. THAT IS, IF YOUR SPIRIT HAS NOT BEEN CAPTURED THE SECOND TIME.
BEWARE OF SECOND SPIRITUAL CAPTIVITY VOLUME 3 [FAMILY ALTAR MESSAGE]; Preached on Thursday, 16th April 2020; Chapter 1 verse 22
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STAND FOR THE TRUTH
IF MY ACTION WHICH IS PLEASING TO GOD WILL OFFEND THE WHOLE WORLD, LET ALL OF THEM BE OFFENDED.
A HOLY SPIRIT-FILLED INDIVIDUAL DOES NOT TENDER APOLOGY FOR DISPLEASING EVERY FORM OF UNGODLINESS IN HIS DAY.
I REPEAT! A HOLY SPIRIT-FILLED INDIVIDUAL, DOES NOT TENDER APOLOGY FOR DISPLEASING EVERY FORM OF UNGODLINESS IN HIS DAY. SURE!!!
If God is not pleased with me, who will be pleased with me. If God rejects me, who will accept me?
If God does not help me, who will help me? If God does not give me eternal life, who will give me eternal life?
If God does not solve my problem, who will solve my problem? Can the devil solve my problem? What if I fall sick and God does not heal me, who will heal me?
That is why we normally sing our song; [Lord, Lord, Lord! You’ve surely been good to me. Lord, Lord, Lord! You’ve surely been good to me. Lord, Lord, Lord! You’ve surely been good to me. You have done what this world could not do.]
God has done for us what nobody can do for us in this world. Even our parents cannot do it. The devil can never attempt it.
You saved my soul when I was lost. You healed me when I was sick. You gave me hope when I was hopeless. You gave me children when I was barren. You gave me wealth when I was poor. You gave me eternal life. You have given me everything I need, even more than that.
Then when you become an enemy of God, tell me, who will save you from God’s mighty terror, God’s anger and God’s wrought? The devil that has deceived you, will he come and help you?
THAT IS WHY I HAVE TOLD YOU, EXPERIENCE HAS PROVED TO ME, IN PARTICULAR, THAT PEOPLE THAT HELP US TO DO SOMETHING AGAINST GOD, CAN HARDLY COME TO OUR RESCUE WHEN GOD IS AGAINST US.
THOSE THAT TAKE DELIGHT IN HELPING US INTO TROUBLE, CAN HARDLY COME TO OUR RESCUE. IS IT NOT TRUE?
THOSE THAT TAKE DELIGHT IN HELPING US INTO WICKEDNESS AND TROUBLE, DO THEY HELP THE PERSON TO ESCAPE?
ONCE THEY PUSH YOU INTO THE DITCH, THEY WILL DISAPPEAR. THEY WILL BE MOCKING YOU FROM THERE.
If a man puts a woman into trouble, he will switch off his phone. If she calls, he will be answering from a different location. If a woman puts a man into trouble, it will be the same thing. If it is money, the same thing. True or false?
Check all the things that put people into trouble, it can never help the person come out of the problem. He will be somewhere laughing at you while you are mourning. Spiritual Lamentation! Which is the worst lamentation.
If you are a seed of God and you fall into the hand of the devil, and he messes you up, any day your eyes of understanding get illuminated, and you free yourself, let me tell you, you will lose your appetite and you lose your weight.
If it is possible, you will quarantine yourself in your room because anywhere you want to go, you will feel like the whole world has known what you did or that the whole world has caught you. Am I making sense?
If it does not happen that way to you, you are not a seed of God. That is why, if a seed of God takes a wrong path, he will want the ground to open so that he will fall in. If you talk towards that area, he will feel like covering your mouth.
EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING ON EARTH IS UNRELIABLE EXCEPT GOD. LOOK INTO ANYBODY OR ANYTHING. IF GOD IS NOT THERE, DO NOT PLACE YOUR CONFIDENCE THERE. IT WILL SURELY DISAPPOINT YOU.
A MAN WHO IS SURE AND CERTAIN THAT HIS CONVICTION IS FROM GOD, DOES NOT GET DISTURBED BY THE OPPOSING ATTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM.
A MAN OR A WOMAN WHO IS SURE AND CERTAIN… WHO IS SURE AND CERTAIN THAT HIS CONVICTION IS FROM GOD, DOES NOT GET DISTURBED BY THE OPPOSING ATTITUDES OF THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM. IS IT A LIE? To hell with you!
If obeying God will make you to hate Me, hate Me. Did you get the Message? If standing for the truth will make us enemies, praise God. I will stand for the truth. Did you get what I am saying? This is because when truth is exalted, falsehood will vanish.
Truth buries all forms of falsehood. Right living buries hypocritical living. Did you get what I am saying? Belief buries unbelief. Is it a lie? This is because one is against the other. One is opposing the other.
Whatever that is opposing the right living, and opposing the truth you know in you, can it be God? Can God be in you, and direct you to do something that is against God? Oh! It is impossible for God to tell lies. Amen.
So your deceiver is not far from you. Your deceiver is not far from you. What is more? Sometimes, you are the one that will fix your eyes on your deceiver. You are the one that will be having the feelings to go around your deceiver.
Your deceiver might be on his own, only for you to trace him down to where he is. Can the river drown who it did not step into the river? It is good for us to say the truth. An Igbo expression says that if you agree, your God will also agree.
A MAN WHO IS SURE AND CERTAIN THAT HIS CONVICTION IS FROM GOD, DOES NOT GET DISTURBED BY THE OPPOSING ATTITUDES OF THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM. AT ALL!!!
HE STANDS ALONE IN HIS PURITY OF MIND AND ATTITUDE… HE STANDS WHAT? …ALONE IN HIS PURITY OF MIND AND ATTITUDE…
…DEFENDING AND PROTECTING HIS BELIEF. What? DEFENDING AND PROTECTING WHAT? HIS BELIEF.
Not defending his self-ego or selfish interest. What must we defend? What must we protect? This is because the Bible said, “We are called for the defence of the gospel truth that the truth of the gospel might continue in us.” Amen.
15Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: 16the one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: 17but the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel. [Philippians 1:15 – 17 KJV]
If you do not defend your belief, it will fizzle out.
Once a child of God notices that he is on the wrong side, at the preaching of the word of God, he takes correction by revelation. He does what? …takes correction by revelation.
Once a child of God notices that he is on the wrong side,… Once he notices that he acted wrongly! …at the preaching of the word of God, he takes correction by revelation. Sure!!!
Taking correction by revelation means that from your experience and from the Word of God, you have discovered for yourself that you were on the wrong side.
And whatever you are doing now, you are doing it because that is what is necessary. When revelation from God strikes a man, he takes God personal. What?
When revelation from God strikes a man, he takes God personal.
He personalizes God, he personalizes every instruction from God. Every encouragement from God, every correction from God; he personalizes all.
He does not have the feeling that God is talking to somebody outside himself. He believes that all the references, all that God is saying are coming to him, and for his own good, for God does not want him to perish. Is it not true?
But when you lack the revelation, oh no, no, no! You are already in hell. You will laugh everything away, thinking that God is chiding Himself. But wait, judgment is there hanging. Judgment is hanging.
When revelation from God strikes a man, he takes God personal. He does not negotiate his stand with anybody, for he is sure and certain that he is doing the will of God.
Do not pretend to be taking correction when you are rejecting it from your heart. What?
Do not pretend to be taking correction when you are rejecting it from your heart. Was it not what I warned against?
“Daddy I am sorry, I will not do it again.” So you say with your mouth, while your heart is saying another thing.
SOM: You are even desiring to do it more and more.
Why should a man’s mouth say something different from what his heart is saying? It is because the man has no interest in what he is uttering from his own mouth. He does not mean it. He is a mocker. A mocker and a scoffer!
In the book of Mathew chapter 21 verse 28 – 31, a man asked his older son to go and work in the vineyard. The son said he will not go, but later changed his mind and went.
The man asked his other son to go and work in the vineyard, the son said “Yes sir”, but did not go. Which of the sons did what the father wanted?
Notice that the older son who said he will not go, later changed his mind and did what the father wanted, but the second son was a mocker.
In his heart, he knew that he will not obey. Yet, he gave a deceitful impression with his mouth. Sure!!! He said, “Yes sir”, and refused to obey.
Sure! He continued the same thing!
Action speaks louder than words. How do you think your father will feel after telling him “Yes sir”, and yet you refuse to carry out his instructions? This is the character of a stranger in the family. Amen.
SOM: A stranger in the family of God. This is exactly how they behave. Brethren, have you not been hearing it word for word?
In our message, Moment of Truth page 95 verse 58, it is written there that If you say you believe the Word of God, but when it comes to putting it into practice you resign, do you believe it? Never!!!
Any person that is a stranger believes in the lips, but his heart is far away from God. Amen.
SOM: His lips will always be praising God, while the heart is mocking and laughing. And that is why many will be rejected on that day.
You will hear, “Depart from Me, for I know you not. You were all these years coming to me with your lips, when your hearts are far away from Me.”
God does not take delight in lip service. If we love Him and we have accepted Him, let us put His Word into practical existence.
In our Message, Moment of Truth page 43 verse 74, it is written there that once you accept that you believe a man sent by God, we owe it as a duty to accept, believe and also practice all that He will tell us, for that will be our righteousness in the sight of God. Amen.
I repeat. In our message, Moment of Truth page 43 verse 74, it is written there that once you accept that you believe a man sent by God, we owe it as a duty to accept, believe and also practice all that he will tell us, for that will be our righteousness in the sight of God. If God is with a man, who can be against him. Nobody!
Your righteousness in the sight of God is your obedience to the word of God in your own day.
I have never seen one that was justified by God, in disobedience to instruction given to him by God in his day. Never!
Disobedience to instruction is very, very provoking. Again!!! Disobedience to instruction is very, very provoking, especially when the Word has gone forth and you said, “Amen”, only for you to turn around and rebel with all your heart.
Is there any mockery more than that? In the church, where you have the Elders and the rest of the congregation, Christ is the final authority there. His Words are final, and should be practically honoured by every member of the church. Amen!!!
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CHARACTER IS THE SEPARATING LINE
SOM: Accept the life of Christ. But if you have a life greater than the one from God, go ahead. Carry go! Did you get the Message?
Accept the life of Christ, but if you feel the life of Christ is lower than the one you want to live, which means you have a better way of life than that of God, go ahead and practice it.
Anywhere it lands you, we will see, for you can never go ahead of God and smell Paradise. You cannot smell eternal life when you are going ahead of somebody who will give you the life and who will take you to Paradise because you do not know the way.
Change your mind, and live right according to the Messages of the Son of Man. Obey what you are hearing, for they are the true Words of God. Truth cannot deceive you into error.
He that called us is faithful, and that is why he wants us to be faithful. But unfortunately, not all of us are called.
Not all of us are called.
Of course, not all of us are called. There are too many people that were not called, and that is manifesting in their characters.
If you are called… and you are chosen, …your eyes, your mind, will focus on your calling in Christ, and not on any other thing.
From the Message, Faithfulness Explained page 59 verse 38, God uses His Word to plant His life in His children. God uses what? I repeat.
God uses His word to plant His life in His children. And that is why they can never perish.
For this reason, since you are convinced that you are a child of God, do not corrupt yourself with the corrupt lifestyles that are found in the world today. Amen.
Faithfulness Explained page 67 verse 59 – 60 says that, the lives we live bear eloquent testimonies of what we believe.
The life you are living will tell us that you are either one of us or you are not. You can be in this Faith but you do not obey our Messages. My life reveals what I believe.
The same way your life, your character reveals what you believe. Can I plant maize and reap tomato? Impossible!
If what is planted in me is the Word of God, and the Word of God is spirit and life, the life I am living is what is planted in me. Amen.
YOUR CHARACTER TELLS ABOUT YOUR FAMILY
Live your life by what God has revealed to you through His Word. Do not live your life by what you see in the world today. All that glitters is not gold.
Our problem is that we have not really believed that our help comes from God and God alone. No human is adequate enough to help you where God is saying no.
Where God is saying no, tell me who will help you there. Even the devil cannot help you there.
Faithfulness Explained page 70 verse 68, makes us understand that a poor man is not one that has no money. Rather, a poor man is one without a reputable character.
A man’s reputable character will grant him favour before kings and rulers. It will even grant him the favour of his enemies.
Character is the number one thing in life. And that is why once it is lost, everything is lost.
Students in schools and colleges, please take note. You know all the ungodly practices that are found there. They are not your portion. Do not do what they do.
Rather, do what the Faith of Christ approves for you. Like I keep on telling little children, remember you are the image makers of your families.
Whatever character you are manifesting, will tell the world the type of family you come from.
Do not forget your career transporter.
If your character is bad, it will be attributed to your family. If your character is good, it will be attributed to your family.
FAITHFULNESS EXPLAINED Page 43 verse 3 makes us understand that, FAMILY WORSHIP IS ENDORSED BY ALMIGHTY GOD FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, AND THAT IT IS AN ILLEGAL ACT FOR ANY FAMILY TO OMIT FAMILY WORSHIP.
ILLEGAL ACT! FOR ANY FAMILY TO OMIT FAMILY WORSHIP.
SOME PARENTS USE THE NATURE OF THEIR JOBS AS A VERY NICE EXCUSE TO OMIT FAMILY WORSHIP IN THEIR HOMES.
WORK IS TOTALLY ORDAINED OF GOD, FOR THE SAME GOD THAT ORDAINED WORK ALSO ORDAINED FAMILY WORSHIP.
HOW THEN DO YOU THINK THAT HE WILL ORDAIN YOU FOR A JOB THAT WILL HINDER YOU FROM WORSHIPPING HIM? NEVER!
YOU ARE DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING BECAUSE YOU WANT TO DO IT. Every excuse you give is a part of the problems you need to solve.
And until you conquer that devil that is hindering you from making a fuller success in life, you will remain guilty.
The type of vision you have for your family will determine the type of job you will accept.
The most important thing is the spiritual comfort of your family. The most important thing is what? The spiritual comfort of your family.
ANY JOB THAT OFFERS YOU EVERY PHYSICAL COMFORT, BUT DENIES YOU THAT SPIRITUAL COMFORT IS NOT FROM GOD. THERE IS TIME FOR EVERYTHING.
OUR GROWING CHILDREN NEED US AROUND THEM FROM TIME TO TIME. WORKING FOR THEIR PHYSICAL NEEDS IS GOOD, BUT IT SHOULD NOT TAKE AWAY THE TIME FOR THEIR SPIRITUAL NEEDS.
ONLY THE WORD CAN SAVE
Brethren, time is running out. It is risky for us to continue to misbehave, live in disobedience to God’s Word, and still expect to live with Christ in Paradise.
SOM: It is impossible. It is impossible. You can never walk negatively, act negatively and expect a positive result. Any seed a man Soweth, that he must reap.
Time is running out on everybody. Any moment from now, everybody will be rewarded by the Son of Man, according as you have fared in the faith.
The Word of God is the only amazing grace of God that can save us. We will do well to continue to abide in it. If you prove stubborn to the Word, the Word will prove stubborn to you.
If you walk contrary to God, He must walk contrary to you, for the same measure you measure to God, the same cup He will return to you.
So if God pays you back in your own coins, is it a heart of wickedness? Okay! He that is paid in his own coin, was any bad thing done to him? If with the money you paid to God, God pays you with the same money, did He do you any evil? Did he do you any evil?
God himself is powerless without His Word. If you continue to trample down on His Word, you will be making it impossible for Him to save you.
In Faithfulness Explained page 100 verse 40, the Son of Man said, I have been ordained and sent to come and salvage the Elect of God in this dispensation. Sure! Not everybody, but the Elect of God.
Give them My Word, whoever accepts My Word that is My Ministry.
god’s nature is your ticket to paradise page 68 verse 51. MANY HAVE TAKEN UNMERITED FAVOUR WHICH IS THE GRACE OF GOD, TO BE THAT WHETHER THEY DO EVIL OR GOOD, THEY SAY THAT GRACE IS SUFFICIENT.
WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND BY GRACE BEING SUFFICIENT? THE WORD OF GOD THAT IS GIVEN TO YOU IN YOUR DAY IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE YOU, IF YOU BELIEVE. THAT IS THE GRACE.
Maybe you do not know that it is by grace that we are blessed with Apostolic Ministry.
Ministers please take note. Once the Word of God goes out and you know it is truth, do not just sit down and say Amen.
If the Word is truth, it has to be implemented. Mark those that refuse the Word by their manifestations. By their characters and by their attitudes.
Mark those that refuse the Word of God by their manifestations after several open warnings, show them the way out, they are not our members.
God’s Nature Is Your Ticket to Paradise page 67 verse 50. “Nothing hardens the heart of the wicked more than the glamour of iniquity.”
SOM: Nothing hardens the heart of the unbeliever or a hypocrite more than the glamour of iniquity. The glamour of iniquity! What he gains from it! Am I making sense?
The Bible calls it, ‘wages of unrighteousness’. And that is what he is collecting. The gain he is deriving from unrighteousness! It can be money, cloth or anything. That is his gain! Is it not the gain?
It is just the song by one musician from Owerri: “I did not know that the things around the waist gives money, and I have been playing with mine.” Can you imagine?
So it is very bad that one will call himself a child of God and is bathing with evil, thinking that God will bundle him into Paradise. Which Paradise? Where is it located that God will bring you into it? Has God saved anyone anyhow before?
You know, people are ignorant. If they are wise, we are the blessed people in this generation. God blessed us because He made us to be close to Him. Is it a lie? We are placed very close to God. He sees us every day. Is it a lie?
That is why God said that the Israelites are blessed people, for there is no nation on earth that has a God that is very near to them more than the people of Israel, and Who speaks to them on a daily basis.
They are a privileged people above all others on earth that they have a God Who is alive and Who is near them and speaks to them always. When they err, He will correct them.
If the people of God must have him in person for their teacher, and it is fulfilling in our own day, have we any excuse? Tell me, is there any denomination that has God in person for their teacher.
45It is written in [the book of] the Prophets, And they shall all be taught of God [have Him in person for their Teacher]. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to Me— [John 6:45 AMP]
You see! For you to believe, you must believe that the Son of Man is the revealed Christ, the Saviour and the God of your own age. When you do not believe, that is your condemnation. Is it a lie?
The way you take a man is the way you will take his word.
God’s Nature Is Your Ticket to Paradise page 67 verse 50. ‘Nothing hardens the heart of the wicked more than the glamour of iniquity’. It is only a seed of God that will hear the Voice of God and then make a shift.
Only what? A seed of God will hear the Word of God and make a shift. If he was doing something bad, when he hears the word of God, he will turn and change immediately to suit the Word of God.
If he is being found in error, you will see the person working towards changing from that error to something good.
It is only a seed of God that will hear the Voice of God and then make a shift. The rest will be walking as if God will take us to Paradise anyhow. To such people, there is no need coming to Fellowship.
GOD’S NATURE IS YOUR TICKET TO PARADISE page 65 verse 45. If the Word does not reform, does not refine, does not renew and does not revive, it is a sure sign that the person has no part in God.
AS A MINISTER, GUARD YOURSELF ALWAYS WITH THE WORD, AGAINST ERROR. YOUR MEMBERS WILL NOT REJOICE IN YOUR ERROR BECAUSE YOU ARE A MINISTER.
AS YOU ARE WATCHING OVER THEM, THEY ARE EQUALLY WATCHING OVER YOU. BE FAIR AND FIRM IN DEALING WITH ONE ANOTHER.
I BELIEVE THAT EVERY MAN IS LIABLE TO MAKE MISTAKES IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. SOME MISTAKES ARE HONEST MISTAKES. IF THAT MISTAKE IS NOT A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO DECEIVE, BRUSH IT ASIDE.
HOWEVER DO NOT BE AFRAID TO TAKE DECISIONS. GOD WILL FORGIVE YOU FOR TAKING WRONG DECISIONS WITH HONEST MOTIVE, BUT HE WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR NOT DOING ANYTHING AT ALL.
IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN A PROBLEM ARISES AS A RESULT OF AN ERROR FROM SOMEONE. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, WITH THE AIM TO SALVAGE THE SITUATION.
DO NOT JUST KEEP QUIET CLAIMING YOU ARE WAITING TO DO WHAT WILL NEVER BE DONE.
For this reason, the Lord benched many. May the peace of obedience, rest and abide with me and you now and forevermore, Amen. Remain blessed in him eternally. Hallelujah!
After this revelation, I will rejoice that God guided Me perfectly. He never made any mistake: That THE SON OF MAN who is revealed in our midst was revealed by God. He is the One that is revealed in a Cloud. That’s all. No other notice shall be given to you. God is not going to give you another sign. Everything is finished. What is left is the translation of your mortal body and then the judgment of God which is the destruction of the world. I AM THE LAST SIGN GOD HAS GIVEN TO THIS PLANET EARTH.
FOLLOW THE CLOUD (EVIDENCE THAT THE SON OF MAN IS THE ELOHIM) VOL. 2; Preached in the cool of the evening of Thursday 14th September 2003; Pg. 15 vs. 17 – 18
CONCLUSION
The Lord God has spoken. I say the Lord God has spoken. The Bible said as we see the days approaching, we have to put ourselves in remembrance of this truth.
“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” (Hebrews 10:25).
This is so that we will always be constantly established in the present truth. Is it not true?
12Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. [2 Peter 1:12 KJV]
This is because when you forget the Word of God, you will go into error. When you forget what God has said concerning a particular matter, truly speaking, you are bound to disobey God. I mean, because of forgetful spirit.
That is why the Bible warned us in the book of James, that we should not be forgetful hearers’ deceiving ourselves. If you are a forgetful hearer, you are deceiving yourself, you are not deceiving God.
“Hey, I forgot it. I did not know when it was taught. Hey! I do not think I went to fellowship that day. Have I heard this before?” Is it an excuse?
I remember, in those good old days, when our people were idolaters. Idolatry was reigning that time. If the chief priest of a shrine in your community, will come early hours of the morning in your family, with Palm frond in his mouth, with his spiritual staff and everything to give you a message from the gods of the land, that family will be trembling with fear.
Even on seeing him coming in without uttering a word, he will demand for the head of the family to come out, and that he has a message from the gods.
he appearance of the chief priest in a man’s family, will instill fear. Everybody will be trembling, when he has not delivered the message.
The moment he delivers the message, if it is a good one, everybody will rejoice. If it is a bad message, he delivers and gives a remedy. He turns his back.
The family will summon emergency meeting immediately to arrest the situation and to fulfill all the demands as he stipulated from the gods.
They were calling him the eye and the mouth of the gods. Is it not true? The eye and the mouth of the gods. That is the chief priest in charge of the shrine.
Now, in the Scriptures, you watch Israel. Whenever the people transgressed, or a king transgressed, God will direct the prophet of God in that particular dispensation of the king, to go to that king’s palace and tell him “Thus sayeth the Lord “.
The moment that prophet appears, both the king and the palace, everybody will be trembling until they hear the message from the prophet, for the prophet is the eye and the mouth of the Almighty God.
Whenever the people are in error, God will send his eye and mouth to go and tell them, warn them and tell them where they erred. The people will tremble with fear.
If it is a good report, oh! They will rejoice exceedingly. If it is a bad report, oh! Who will like to offend God? The people will not like to offend God. The king will summon emergency meeting.
He will say the Lord God has spoken, the prophet came, look at what he declared. How do we get out of this trouble, for the Lord our God can do nothing but revealeth his will to his servant, the prophet? Is it a lie?
In our own day, is there anything hidden? We are the only generation that is fearless. Iniquity has hardened the hearts of many. Stubbornness has become the worst, which is idolatry. A stubborn fellow is an idolater, man or woman, young or old. Is it not true?
Now watch! When God speaks, instead of the people to fall flat and repent in ashes, they will hold their nose on the sky, with their shoulders high, as if they are flexing their muscles against God.
Brethren, are you not seeing it happening? Hence you see people demonstrating against God. Some will even find fault with God. They think it is a light thing. So offending God now is a light thing in their eyes. Why? They are destined to perish.
The Word of God is foolishness to one destined to destruction. One that is on his way, on her way to eternal destruction regards God’s Words as foolish and unreasonable. The fellow regards it as something meant for infants. Is it not true? Is it not true?
This is because the spirit of God is no longer there. Maybe, from the beginning, he or she is numbered among the mixed multitude. And we were counting that person to be one of us, when God never said he is one of us.
THAT IS WHY IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE IN THE NUMBER WHO IS ALWAYS GETTING THAT QUESTION FROM THE SON OF MAN, “DO YOU KNOW ME? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?”
IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE AMONG THE PEOPLE THAT RECIEVE THESE QUESTIONS FROM TIME TO TIME, REST AT NOTHING UNTIL YOU HAVE ANSWERED THAT QUESTION BY DIVINE REVELATION.
IT IS NOT BY MERE LIP SERVICE. “DADDY I KNOW YOU, WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME? AH, AH! DADDY I KNOW YOU, DADDY I KNOW YOU.” HE WILL LOOK AT YOU AND GO HIS WAY. INSTEAD OF FIRST FINDING OUT WHY HE IS ASKING YOU THIS QUESTION!
13. Philip! Have I been with you all these years, and yet you do not know me? There is something in you that he saw. There is a lifestyle; there is a behaviour, why he is asking you if you truly know him. There is something he is seeing in you. He is noticing the way you are taking His Word. You are not serious with His Words.
It is the one who does not take His Word seriously that He inquiries from, to know whether the person knows HIM. “Do you know Whom you are hearing His Voice?”
He who does not take the Words of God’s Prophet serious, what will be his fate? A community that jokes with the words of the eye and mouth of the gods, can they please the gods? That god they are serving will wipe them off.
So it is. A seed of God; a nation of God that plays with God’s mouthpiece, God’s own incarnate in their day, can they see life?
That is why Jesus Christ made it clear, that whoever that rejects the truth from the mouth of Christ, can never see life, but the wrought of God abideth on that person forever.
YOU CANNOT BELIEVE JESUS AND DISBELIEVE THE SON OF MAN, FOR JESUS THE CHRIST AND THE SON OF MAN ARE ONE NOT TWO.
You cannot say I believe Jehovah, I believe the Almighty God, but you do not believe Jesus Christ. You do not believe the Son of Man.
All these references, are references to one man. When you say Jehovah, Almighty God, Jesus the Christ, The Son of Man, you are referring to one man with too many names. And you are holding dispensational names. Is it not true? You are referring to one sovereign spirit, not two. True or false?
That is why I pity people. He that lived for a short while and went away, came back to live longer than He lived before to complete the work he could not complete. Did you get the Message?
Who is on the scene? The same Resurrected Body. No more. No less! That is why He has showcased Himself through the Son of Man. He has made Himself visible and even photographed.
We are no longer in doubt as to whether the Elohim dwelleth in the Son of Man or not. Now, we are sure and certain, convinced.
Then why can we not tremble at His Word? Why can we not accept His judgment to be the judgment of the Almighty?
Why can we not accept His correction. Moreso, when we are indulging in condemnable acts and hidden works of dishonesty, working in craftiness, enjoying the deeds of darkness more than the deeds of the light. This is because our ways are evil.
The Lord God has spoken. In the morning, He spoke. This night He spoke again. Our brother just put us in remembrance, rehearsing the Messages as we received from Him.
So nobody can say this Message has expired. No Message expires when the Messenger is still on the scene. Can it expire? Grace is still on the scene. Christ will remain on the scene till eternity.
How can the Word of God expire? The Word of God is always alive and active, whether you believe it or not. It can never subtract or add to what God is.
Your unbelief, your disloyalty, oh! Can it change God’s nature? Can it change the judgment? No! Nothing will ever change the judgment of God against an evil man who refuses to repent.
Once an evil man refuses to repent, the judgment can never be perverted. Can it be perverted? Impossible! God does not pervert justice.
So we better accept this truth and volunteer to live right. Where we have found ourselves in error, now we are still preaching, it is not yet too late. A decision that can change the whole record for the better can be taken in one second, just like the thief on the cross. Is it not true?
42And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. 43And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise. [Luke 23:42 – 43 KJV]
On this note I say, “Good night to all of you”, while we invite our Brother Promise to roundup the whole thing.