Preached On Sunday 22nd September, 2019 @ THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD, ONITSHA By Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN HE THAT SANCTIFIES
Nobody can avoid the Son of Man. If you avoid My face while you are alive, you will see My face in death. Believe it if you can……
EXAMINE YOUR FAMILY LIFE; preached in 2008 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 3
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HAVE YOU TOTALLY SUBMITTED YOUR LIFE TO GOD?
If you know I love you, and I would not like you to fail, and I know I have set an equal standard for everybody. The benefit you are having is that I am showing you the core areas so that you do not waste your time on other things.
2. Telling people; “Do you know we drink in our church?” What you drink means nothing. “Do you know we eat dog? We eat this and that?” If you like eat human flesh. That is not what we are saying? “Do you know we marry many wives?” Marry the whole world. You cannot marry more than Solomon.
3. Is that what we are saying? The very important matter is somewhere.
4. We have something that is weightier. “We do not pay tithes and things like that.” Are we talking about tithes? HAVE YOU TOTALLY SUBMITTED YOUR LIFE TO GOD AND THEN GIVE GOD HIS DUE OFFERING AND SACRIFICE?
5. I MEAN, SACRIFICE OF LOVE. LOVE OFFERING AS ABRAHAM DID. A MAN OF FAITH. REMEMBER THAT ABRAHAM EXPECTED NOTHING IN RETURN. NOT EVEN WHEN HE OFFERED TO MELCHIZEDEK. HE EXPECTED NOTHING IN RETURN. I do not want to veer off.
6. Marriage takes place in the heart, divorce takes place in the heart. The same way, love is not a mere statement.
7. THAT IS WHY A MAN IS NOT MARRIED UNTIL HE HAS MARRIED SOMEBODY HIS HEART WHOLEHEARTEDLY ACCEPTS.
8. AND FOR YOUR HEART TO ACCEPT THAT WOMAN TO BE YOUR WIFE, YOU MUST HAVE THE SAME CHARACTER WITH THAT MAN.
9. THAT IS WHY ANYTHING GOD’S LOVE IS UNCONDITIONAL. ONCE IT IS TIED TO SOMETHING, THE MOMENT THAT THING FIZZLES OUT, IT IS THE END. TRUE OR FALSE?
10. If a man has promised you many things to lure you into marriage, what if you come in, those things will vanish away, what will happen? He has used those things to bribe you, roped you into a union that will bring supreme disgrace to you.
11. What if a woman offers such a thing to a silly man and because of it, you volunteer to marry? If those things vanish away, what will you do? That is why I say, nothing should inform your love, nothing if not Christ.
12. For what you are marrying is Christ. If Christ is not there, the devil must be there. The devil MUST be there. Prophet Mohammed said that it is invitation to hellfire. Invitation to hellfire.
13. The same way love is not a mere statement. Love is the matter of the heart, hate is the matter of the heart. The moment love vanishes, hate takes over. When smile vanishes, sadness takes over. Amen.
14. The moment smiles vanish, gloomy face, sadness automatically takes over. Hostility takes over. Depression takes over. Frustration steps in as the climax. Then, death is already settled.
15. You begin to notice high blood pressure, low blood pressure, this and that. All are symptoms of devilish relationship. Devilish relationship. And then, watch the product that will be coming out of that union.
16. Whatever that has eroded the joy of the marriage can never be God. Whatever that has eroded the love can never be God.
17. It is a sign that the couple has abandoned the Faith of Christ, and the moment where you abandoned the Faith was where God abandoned you.
18. You are just rolling on, managing. From that time, marriagebecomes a management. The flower is no longer there. It is completely dried up.
19. God said in a message, “Marriage, the oldest institution ordained of God”, The Cloud is here. From the beginning of this day’s worship, the Almighty was here before the first person came in.
20. And this was the weather that day.
21. He watched the way we came in. He watched the spirit that followed us into this place. The message said; marriage does not grow old. Marriage from God, marriage ordained by God, marriage that is united by the Word can never grow old.
22. Alleluia! Marriage that is ordained of God can never grow old. Any day marriage grows old, paradise must grow old. I hope I am making sense?
23. MARRIAGE IS A PROTOTYPE OF PARADISE, IF IT IS ORDAINED OF GOD. BUT WHEN THE HAND OF GOD IS NOT THERE, HELLFIRE BEGINS THERE. THAT IS WHY A MAN THAT MAKES OR A WOMAN THAT MAKES A MISTAKE IN MARRIAGE ESTABLISHES HELLFIRE ON EARTH. True or false?
24. We better begin to know the truth. Especially for the sake of these young ones that are coming up, lest you rope yourselves into hell ignorantly.
25. The moment God is not there, God is not there. The devil is perfectly in control. Disappointment is on the way, and the greatest will be children’s disappointment. For when a man marries a bad wife, he produces bad children. True or false?
26. Remember it is vice versa. When a good woman marries a bad man, she produces bad children, because it takes the two to tango. Can a woman impregnate herself? Good!
27. The message said, marriage does not grow old. Marriage from God, marriage ordained by God, marriage that is united by the Word can never grow old.
28. The same way love does not grow old. The love of God does not grow old. That marriage is alive and active from generation to generation.
29. Why is the love of God ever evergreen? Love is of God. God is love. He that loveth is of God. Can God grow old? Can truth grow old? Whatever God does is eternal; nothing can be added nor subtracted.
30. That is why, whatever God has joined together, let the whole world come together, they can never set it asunder, because it is of God.
31. But if there be conditions that brought them together, whether pregnancy, gift, outward beauty, family background, promises that might not be fulfilled till eternity; be it known to you that there was no marriage contracted even in the beginning.
32. And this is what causes trouble. When those flowering, flamboyant expectations begin to fail, nothing is materializing; you see the grave begins to make noise.
33. And when it sets in, it does not stop. Divorce does not even stop it. Rather, it makes it worse. That is why whoever that ropes himself or herself into such a union, has already purchased his casket and paid for his grave.
34. He is using a nice casket to put his dresses while he has paid for the people that will dig the grave, waiting for time. Amen.
35. Marriage that is united by the Word can never grow old.EXPO! The same way, love does not grow old. The word of God does not grow old.
36. That marriage is alive and active from generation to generation. The older the marriage, the stronger the love.
37. You see where God is starting that assessment? From the home. From the home! Charity they say begins at home. The same way evil character is first manifested at home.
38. I do not even see a union that is still rolling on as friends. For there is nothing friendliness there. Everything there speaks enmity, apathy, hate, full of misgiving; you can hardly see perfect understanding again.
39. These are the pictures of people that are expecting translation. Brethren do we have such conditions prevalent in the Bride [I mean] globally?
40. Begin the assessment with your own family. Begin now to do strong weeding. Intensive weeding in your own farm. It is better than abandoning your farm full of weeds and be having your eyes on your neighbour’s garden.
41. You are condemning your neighbours’ garden, saying that he is not weeding it when your own is overcrowded with weeds. What are you coming to teach us then? If you go to Ephesians chapter 5 from verse 22, you will see that, that is the summary of all we are reading. That is the judgement.
42. Love that compelled Christ to die a shameful death for you and I. Love, that compelled Christ to abandon His celebrated seat and then condescended to human level that we might be saved.
43. What type of love is that, that a man should lay down his life for the sake of his Brethren? After talking on the same matter, He said, this is the same type of love we should show one to another. Who has ever shown it? And you think God will bypass it?
44. I love this calm environment because I am giving you your expo. You do not solve it collectively. You take the exposed paper to your home, settle down and do the right thing. Do every research work you can to make sure you come up with the right answer.
45. If you are given exposed paper and you fail in that examination, you blame yourself. Judge for yourself. If God judges us by love, is He making a mistake?
46. Confusion takes over because the devil is now perfectly in control. How do you know it is the devil? The husband and wife are now at dagger’s end.
47. Husband and wife are now at dagger’s end. If any should see the other, they will be wishing each other death. If the man goes out, the woman will be praying that he should not come back.
48. The woman goes out, the man will be praying that she dies there so that everything will end. If the woman brings out food, the man will be indirectly waiting for the woman to taste the food first to avoid eating poison from the wife. Yet, we are waiting for translation.
49. Let Me tell you. God is a righteous judge. If He never manifested in human form, we will have excuses.
50. How do you know it is the devil? The husband and wife are now at dagger’s end.
51. The devil generates reasons why it should be so. The devil supplies everything that will make them to tear apart publicly.
52. Who supplies the equipment? The devil. That will make them irreconcilable.
53. So you must know whether your marriage is subsisting or existing.
54. How does he supply it? Nobody will try to see the good of each other. The man will always be looking for serious faults he will use either to drive the wife away or to beat her up.
55. The wife will be looking for excuses which she will use to starve the husband or even to pack away so that people will justify her decision. What will they do?
56. Whenever they sit quietly, they are in isolation. The man will isolate himself from the wife, the wife will confine herself in her own room.
57. Instead of thinking about Christ and what is ahead of us, they will be thinking, remembering all the evils the husband has manifested from the day he came into contact with her.
58. Every caustic statement the man made, she will recall all. The devil will be recalling them, putting her in remembrance, magnifying them even.
59. Then to the man, he will bend down. Look at his face when he is bending down; to show that he is busy with something, the legs will be shaking. The devil will be reminding him and blaming him for even coming into contact with such a wicked woman.
60. Was she wicked in the beginning? What made her wicked? At what point did she become wicked? At that point where the man stops loving, that is the point where the woman becomes wicked. I do not know whether you are getting what I am saying?
61. Any day foolishness starts in a man is the day wisdom enters into the woman. I am not preaching marriage. let Me go back to My seat. I am just giving you expo.
62. So you must know whether your marriage is subsisting or existing.
63. Remember that marriage is built upon foolishness. Good!
64. Murder comes in different forms. You can murder a man with the word of your mouth. Sure! You can murder a woman with the word of your mouth. You can murder even with the denial of the necessities of life. You can murder with boiling.
65. You can murder by mounting undue pressure on each other. You can murder by neglect; wilful neglect which is punishment to either party. Why are these things there? Marriage is no longer there.
66. If we do not highlight the truth, our children that are coming up will not be put in the right perspective about this hydra-headed few things God named.
67. Often times, we gather here by invitation, husband and wife will present themselves with smiling faces, deceiving themselves, giving the impression that they were in love, that they were in the Faith of Christ.
68. Look at what God says. One, two, three years, four years, the smiling faces vanish. The professed love vanishes, friendliness, vanishes. Brethren, is it true?
69. Some do not even last for one year. Some do not last for one year. The home begins to make a great noise.
70. Some were bad from the very official beginning. Why? hey started from a faulty foundation. False foundation. Any foundation of marriage that is not laid upon love of God is laid on a faulty foundation. It must crumble. It must crumble!
71. To a godly union, every additional child increases the joy.
72. Whether there is food or not, money or not.
73. To a godly union, every additional child increases the joy, the love, the understanding, the tolerance.
74. Whether there is food or not, money or not, at least you see the man rushing to the hospital and embracing the wife, embracing the baby, going a-borrowing to meet the demand of the hospital, to bring the family home.
75. And he invites friends even when he is empty-handed to come and rejoice.
76. Alleluia! Love of God.
77. SONG: [Oh love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong. It shall for evermore endure, the Saints and angel’s song.]
IF WE ARE IN THE FAITH WITHOUT A COMFORTER, WE ARE LOST. I SAY, WE ARE COMPLETELY LOST. YOU HAD BETTER ACCEPT THIS TRUTH. IF WE ARE, AS A CHURCH OR CHILDREN OF GOD AND THE COMFORTER HE PROMISED TO SEND US IS NOT WITH US, WE ARE LOST. OUR CLAIM IS FALSE. WE ARE COMPLETELY DECEIVED.
LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS VOL. 3; Preached on 30th April 2000 at the Household Onitsha; Pg. 92 vs. 44 – 48
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YOUR FOUNDATION MUST BE CHRIST [LOVE]
Marriage that is ordained of God is never a burden, but a blessing. Is it not scriptural? He that finds a wife finds a good thing and receives blessings from God. [Proverbs 18:22]
2. But to people who are not in Christ, they will cancel this particular passage of the scripture. They will tell you that marriage brings about downfall.
3. If marrying a wife brings about downfall, it then means God has told great lies. But I believe here to say that God can never tell lies.
4. And I can show you people that married out of Love of God with nothing, and the Love of God in their hearts attracted God’s attention to the point that God made them great from the grass.
5. From nothing, God made them something. I am a living example. I do not need to bring example from anywhere. I am one. Period.
6. And a virtuous wife is difficult to be found, who can find it but God?
7. Who can find a virtuous wife? Who can confirm a virtuous husband? The two are rare. I say the two are rare.
8. Do you know one funny thing about these things? I pity innocent people that fall victims of these false unions, associations that metamorphosed into wives and husbands. I pity them.
9. The reason is this. They never started their lives with Christ. So, they had no guide. And when you are working without a guide, anywhere is your destination.
10. You see, people that are now under a guide cannot afford to make the mistake of others who worked in blindness, who were considering people facially for what they are outside.
11. Some went as far as giving stipulations on how tall the man will be, how tall the woman will be, fair complexion, long leg and short leg and this and that.
12. Eventually, the devil masqueraded herself and presented the picture of that being and the man ran home with it, that he has carried a jewel, precious jewel. Precious jewel turned out to be precious torment.
13. I am telling you, a man that misses his track in marriage lives under torment. The worst torment is the torment of the heart, of the spirit, of the soul. If you fight, it gets worse.
14. You get provoked, you die prematurely, because such wives take delight in provoking the man to wrath for they do not want such men to live. I am telling you the truth.
15. Remember we are living in the age where people celebrate mourning dresses. Mourning dresses have become social dresses, well beautified. Nobody mourns the dead any more, rather people celebrate the dead. Am I saying the truth? Sure!
16. A situation where the husband and wife will be living in a single room, but immediately the man dies, you see the woman packing into a flat, buy jeep, putting on mourning dress and be giving birth to children.
17. What are you saying? You do not run from a battle because of the fear of being shot to death. This is the world we are living in.
18. A man whose wife died, within two months, he weds another woman. That means there was one standing by the side waiting for the woman to die.
19. Once she hears that the woman is in the hospital, one is already waiting by the side supplying rat poison for preparing pap.
20. The aim is for the sick woman to move from hospital to the mortuary. Then from taking care of the kids, she will turn to wife. You better be careful. Let your eyes be open. Amen.
21. Marriage has now become a thing of mockery. Let Me tell you the whole truth; once you fail in marriage, forget about the kingdom of heaven. When you fail in marriage, you have failed in all.
22. Off your eyes from paradise for you have nothing to offer there. You have absolutely nothing to offer there. I am the one saying it.
23. If you are confused about this statement, meet Me privately and I will explain it more and more. Amen.
24. It takes an Ahab to marry a Jezebel.
25. Listen to Me. Youth, be very careful. I think I have warned over and over. I warned you against foreign partnership that metamorphoses into marriage.
26. Number one reason you go into marriage is companionship. True or false? True sir. Is it not the scripture? How can somebody in Malaysia be a companion to somebody in Nigeria all in the name of marriage? My husband is in Malaysia. My wife is in Nigeria.
27. Does he need a companion? He is looking for somebody he will disgrace. And whoever that accepts it is equally accepting it because of some other ulterior consideration not marriage.
28. There can be some other hidden considerations not marriage. It is marriage contracted in deceit. The man is being deceived by the woman. This is the truth. This is the truth about it.
29. How many of them are succeeding today? When the man has clinched his fist saying he is not obeying the agreement what happens? The whole thing crashes. That is why I warned long, long time ago in this Faith.
30. Unfortunately, what I warned against is manifesting. Remember I warned when there was none. Thank you.
31. My question is, what drove away that glorious, wonderful, hilarious joyful face? What drained all of them away?
32. There is a quote, when God gave the message, “CHOOSING A PARTNER. CHOOSING YOUR PARTNER.” That is, making the right choice of life, the right choice of marriage and so on.
33. God said, “WHEN A HYPOCRITE AMONG US WANTS TO MARRY A WIFE, HE CHANGES THE DOCTRINE ON MARRIAGE.HE CAN NEVER USE THE DOCTRINES OF CHRIST CONCERNING MARRIAGE TO MARRY.
34. RATHER, HE WILL CHANGE IT. HE WILL INTERPRET IT TO SUIT HIS EVIL DESIRE AND HE STOPS AT NOTHING UNTIL IT IS CONSUMMATED.
35. He said, “Brethren, when it comes to that, everybody runs away because on the day of God’s visitation in anger, all that participated in it must suffer the same fate.”
36. My question is, what drained away that glorious, wonderful, hilarious joyful face? What drained all of them away?
37. What drained away the so called love, the understanding, the tolerance, the patience? What drained them away? I am not here to ask ‘A’ or ‘B’ but the truth is; Check it very well, they abandoned Christ and Christ abandoned them.
38. Sure! At that point where you abandoned Christ, that is the point where Christ has also abandoned you. For God is with you while you are with Him. If you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
39. Does God solicit for a man’s favour? You are the one that have need of God. Because I may wrap it up with this one. The next of the tapes will made in My house any day I want to visit the matter again. Thank God we are now in our homes.
40. I am not here to ask ‘A’ or ‘B’ but the truth is; Check it very well, they abandoned Christ and Christ abandoned them.
41. For God is with you while you are with Him. When you abandon Him, He will abandon you.
42. They started with Christ, professing Him with the lips whentheir hearts were too far away from the reality. Period!
43. Let Me tell you something. I believe it very strongly. The direction of the wind determines where every grass and leaves will tilt to. Biri-biri (unstable)brother must marry a Biri-biri (unstable)sister. Did you get the message?
44. I believe with all My heart that no true seed of God can dabble into an eternal union without God’s approval.
45. Number one thing he must ask of is the mind of God, and if God says stop, stop means stop. But if God says stop and you continue, if you are wise and understanding, you dare not in this life nor in the life to come open your mouth to talk about your error before God. Because what you placed in the order came to you. I hope I am making sense?
46. In short, without any fear or favour, many have lost the eternal race, but I dare not mention names, but they know themselves.
47. Now, I am on My way home, do I need their faces again? God forbid. The only faces I want now are faces of believers not faces of unbelievers.
48. When you abandon Him, He will abandon you. They started with Christ, professing Him with the lips when their hearts were too far away from the reality.
49. They had another thing in mind that brought them together as husband and wife, not real love of marriage, not real love of God. For if it is the real love of God, nothing tampers with it.
50. This is becoming too much. Apostle Ojiakor, Apostle Kelechi and the rest of Bishops and elders here, if you belong to God, we are one family, if there should be anything marriage, I think I have laid a perfect example?
51. I want all of you here to accuse Me of laying a faulty foundation of marriage for My daughters, for you were all there. I said, Apostle Ojiakor because My first two daughters were brought up by you and your family and they got married while they were with you. Who and who were the people that contracted the marriage? Is it not this Bride?
52. The first, the second and the third. How can I be a seed of God in the family of God and heathens will now give my daughter in marriage?
53. Is it not a denial of the Faith of Christ? Then, what is the essence of the brethren around Me? What am I professing? Am I not laying a bad example?
54. We better be very, very careful and stop deceiving ourselves. If THE SON OF MAN is keeping quiet over a thing, He is keeping quiet because that thing had already been judged over and over publicly but the culprit continued.
55. That is why the voice said, whenever God rejects anybody, He will be approving everything you present to God. Seeing that there is none He will tell you and you will obey, there is no need telling you again.
56. Before you mention, ‘go ahead’. ‘Go and do it, go ahead, go ahead’, and then you will be rejoicing. Elders that were with me in my house knew what I told them.
57. I had an experience that made me to pray and my God answered my prayers, and the person hardened his heart for his heart was bent and was looking for alternative by all means.
58. When I had already proclaimed how I will disarm him lest he will do this and I did it. He still circumvented it, and God allowed him for the sake of the infants.
59. I know God for one thing. If you know the truth about your God, you come to Him for enquiry, He says; Balaam, don’t go. Second time, Balaam, go to your house. Third time, “Balaam! Okay, you want to go, go. But whatever I will command you to say, say it.”
60. Knowing that Balaam will not obey, He waited for Balaam at the junction with a machete. Balaam got there, saw an ass. An ass spoke to Balaam, Balaam hardened his heart.
61. The Lord knew that this man has crossed the divide. How can a heathen be expressing more fears than somebody who knows the truth? We are toiling with something our fathers never toiled with.
62. I thank God for everything. Our Brother Sunday Ugorji, I hope you are here, the deacon? Good. I used the Deacon to cite a good example.
63. He is my boy, we grew up together. We were together, I met him in the Faith, or he met me about 1990. He was a small boy. We were coming up fine.
64. He was measuring up fine until pride set in because he saw a little money in his hands. He became uncontrollably bad and then came back with a container full of abandoned goods.
65. We allowed him to empty the whole thing into his warehouse and today he wants me to approve of the brethren to follow him to bury the abandoned product. God forbid.
66. A day is coming and now is that day when the people that accompanied you to marry your wife will accompany you in everything you will be doing. If your wife dies before you, they will bury your wife.
67. You die before your wife, they will bury you. You enjoy fellowship here. No more. No less. For many are now here for the sake of people that will bury them.
68. Some have even told their relations, heathen relations that any day they will die, that the main road will be closed, that the whole police officers in Nigeria will be there to usher people in and out.
69. For THE SON OF MAN is going to invite the whole world and I have started showing them the opposite now. If you know the best thing, you do it.
70. They had another thing in mind that brought them together as husband and wife, not real love of marriage, not real love of God. For if it is the real love of God, nothing tampers with it.
71. Even if you want to write the love of God in a pen, no pen can finish it. No scroll can contain it. If it is a parchment, the whole world cannot contain it.
72. The love of God is inexhaustible.
73. Then marriage that is established on such a foundation. L.O.V.E. look at it there, which is perfect love. I mean, marriage that is established here, tell Me what will happen here. Even if it wants to come down, it will rest on the Holy Spirit.
74. If it falls away from the Holy Spirit, we will see brotherly kindness. If it falls from there, we will seegodliness. It is still there. From there, we will see patience.
75. I mean, let us see that love that is no longer there. Can we see Holy Spirit? Is it there? No. Brotherly kindness? No. Godliness? No. Patience? No. Temperance? No. Knowledge? No. Virtue? No. Faith? No.
76. Can you tell Me that God was there from the beginning? Never. We better face facts.
77. Can you build castles in the air? If the foundation is Faith and Faith was no longer there, what are you building? Can you build castles in the air? No. You are daydreaming.
78. The man is living in the next world not in this present world. Living in the opposite world. There must be a foundation for every structure, and the foundation of the building determines how long the building will last and how many buildings it can carry up.
79. Whenever a building develops cracks here and there, the truth is that the foundation is faulty. What do you do? Pull it down, excavate the debris, lay a fresh and new foundation which is very solid materials.
80. That is why, no other foundation can any man lay than that which is laid which is Christ, the foundation of every family, for every family in heaven and on earth must be named by Christ. If Christ is not the name of your family, the devil is the name.
Let Me tell you. I regard this place as a City of Knowledge and Wisdom. For wherever God is, wherever God has made his dwelling place must be the City of Knowledge and Wisdom. …… That is why when you know the personality that is in the midst of the Bride, happy are you. Happy are you. But if you are not personally and practically acquainted with Him, you will not, you will not even discern the goodness of the Lord.
DIDN’T OUR HEARTS BURN WITHIN US VOL. 1; Preached on Sunday 30th April 2017 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 38 vs. 9 & Pg. 95 vs. 24
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PRACTICAL REALITY OF THE BRIDAL FAITH
I am here for the practical reality of the Bridal Faith. For too many evils are being committed under the guise of the ministry of the Bride as if we are here
2. Too many evils are being perpetrated in the guise of the Bridal Ministry. Too many evils are covered by many families, all in the name of Bride of Christ Ministry. Which one?
3. Anyway, I believe one thing. You can be in the Bride of Christ Ministry without being in Christ. True or false? That is the truth. You can be in the church without being in the Faith of Christ.
4. You are in the church, you die in the church and church people will bury you, and yet you are not in Christ. But for Me, to live is Christ, to die is Christ. And if I die in him, it is great gain.
5. I am here for the practical reality of the Bridal Faith.
6. Practical reality of the Bridal Faith. Not theoretical reality or storytelling.
7. For too many evils are being committed under the guise of the ministry of the Bride as if we are here for cementing evil or teaching evil.
8. We teach the truth as it is revealed to us in love but people act the way they are ordained to act.
9. Pure truth! We teach the truth as it is being revealed to us by God and people choose to act the way they want to act.
10. If you ask why, they will retort, “Is it your business? It is my business. Leave me with it. When I get there, I will settle it with God.” To tell you that his own god is somewhere.
11. Who knows what he has come in here to do? The God that is here does not talk. There is a god that he has in mind. “When he gets there, that god will speak.”
12. Hear Me very well, whatever ruins your ministry in the Faith of THE SON OF MAN must ruin your ministry as a husband or as a wife.
13. What?
14. If your marriage with your wife is not by election, it is by condition. If your marriage with your wife is not by election, it is by condition. Whose elect are you? If your marriage is not by election, election is by God’s foreknowledge.
15. Election is by predestination, God’s foreknowledge. Did you choose your wife by God’s foreknowledge, by election, by predestination?
16. Was your husband revealed to you ahead of time? Was your wife revealed to you ahead or time or you just woke up one morning, only to see beautiful faces, handsome faces and begin to make choices as you wanted? Only to make grievous mistakes.
17. A man spoils his ways, only to turn round to blame it on God. Some will blame it even on their parents. Some will blame on their friends who contributed absolutely nothing.
18. Conditional marriages do not last.
19. Conditional marriages do not last. Love has no condition. The love of God gives no condition.
20. It is never bribed. You cannot bribe Me to love you. If you bribe Me to love you, it then means, you will keep on giving Me bribe to retain it.
21. But if the love is from My heart, the love of God, whether we eat or drink, whether we are sick or healthy, the love is still there. Even if we are separated by millions of miles away, the love is still there. Amen.
22. Anything can fade away, anything can die a natural death not the love of God.
23. Conditional marriages do not last. They are human associations that are likely to break up any time. What?
24. They are human associations that are likely to break up any time. And anything can cause the breakup. Human association expires with time.
25. It exists between man and man, woman and woman, husband and wife, wife and husband. Have you not seen friends parting ways simply because the love of God was not there? If the love of God was there, they can never part ways.
26. Are you hearing what I am saying? Wrappers fade, more especially the ones that do not have quality. Why is it that women prefer to buy ntorika (Jorge)? The older thentorika, the brighter the outlook. True or false? True!
27. The older the ntorika, the brighter the outlook. But Ankara will be very beautiful. If you wash it two times, no more. That is why we prefer spraying our motors with auto base.
28. After spraying, it looks very dull, but with time, the more you keep on washing, the brighter.
29. How can we receive a kingdom that fadeth not away and then…
30. How can we receive a kingdom that fadeth not away?
31. How can we receive a kingdom that fadeth not away and then God will enjoin us with marriages that will fade away? Who then will form the kingdom?
32. I WONDER! HOW CAN WE HAVE FAMILIES THAT WILL FADE AWAY AND THEN WE ARE EXPECTING TO BE IN THE KINGDOM THAT FADETH NOT AWAY?
33. WHO THEN FORMS THE KINGDOM? WHO WILL BE THE INHABITANTS OF THAT KINGDOM?
34. Remember that the kingdom of God is already with you, among you, even in your heart. The kingdom of God begins in my family. It begins in your family. Amen.
35. THE KINGDOM MUST BE BORNE BY HUMAN BEINGS THAT WILL NEVER FADE AWAY.
36. OUR UNION WITH CHRIST IS LIKENED TO OUR UNION WITH OUR WIVES IF THEY ARE REALLY WIVES GIVEN TO US, APPROVED BY GOD. AM I MAKING SENSE?
37. IF YOU CANNOT DISCOVER YOUR WAY, WELL, YOU WILL REMAIN BLIND TILL ETERNITY. WHEN TRUTH GOES OUT, IT OPENS THE EYES OF SOME, IT BLINDS SOME.
38. I AM THROWING TORCHLIGHT, IN THE DARK PLACES OF YOUR HOMES…
39. What?When truth goes out, it opens the eyes of some, and blinds some. I am throwing what? Torchlight… In the dark places of your homes.
40. I AM THROWING A TORCHLIGHT, IN THE DARK PLACES OF YOUR HOMES, THAT YOU MAY SEE THAT YOU ARE THE ARCHITECT OF YOUR OWN WOES.
41. YOU SHOULD BLAME YOURSELVES AND NOT GOD, FOR GOD CANNOT MAKE A MISTAKE BUT YOU CAN MAKE A MISTAKE.
42. BUT IS MARRIAGE A MISTAKE? NEVER! A MAN MARRIES HIS CHARACTER. IF YOU THINK YOU COULD HAVE MARRIED A BETTER ONE, YOU ARE A LIAR.
43. WHAT ‘A’ SAW AND RAN AWAY, IF ‘B’ HAS THE QUALITY OF ‘A’ AND COMES INTO CONTACT WITH IT, ‘B’ WILL ALSO RUN AWAY.
44. I AM SAYING IT MUST BE BIRDS OF THE SAME FEATHER FLOCKING TOGETHER.
45. IF YOU SAY IT IS A MISTAKE, HOW MANY YEARS HAS THE MISTAKE LASTED? WHEN DID YOU NOTICE THE MISTAKE?
46. IN THE BEGINNING OR AT THE MIDDLE OR NOW THAT THE WHOLE THING HAS EXPIRED? WHEN DID YOU NOTICE THE MISTAKE?
47. Now you can go back to your seat. I am not here to treat marriage but like we read it in all our messages. You are my witnesses.
48. I have always highlighted marriage and many, many things that happened in our marital relationships.
49. If you want to know what God said concerning marital relationship, an ideal godly home, an ideal husband, an ideal wife? Go back to the messages, they are there.
50. BUT IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT THOSE THAT ARE INVOLVED WHOSE HOUSES ARE ON FIRE, WHO SHOULD LISTEN ATTENTIVELY AND GET ENOUGH INFORMATION TO SEE WHETHER THEY CAN PUT THEIR HOMES RIGHT, THEY ARE THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE A HELL OF NOISE, TRANSFERRING THE MESSAGES TO [OTHER] PEOPLE, CLAIMING THAT ALL IS WELL, WHEN ALL IS NOT WELL.
51. ANY ATTEMPT TO CORRECT THEM WILL BE GREETED WITH A SILLY REPLY “I KNOW MORE THAN THAT. MY MIND IS THERE. I KNOW MORE THAN THAT.”
52. So, I cannot come here to diagnose marital issues. I finished it by telling you that any time you get tired, take your decision. Do that which you think is right, proper, fit in your eyes, finish!
53. After all your bride price was not paid to THE SON OF MAN. If your bride price was paid to me, I will be in the position to talk.
54. If you know who and who that befitted from your marriage, invite them in. Let them go and pay for what they ate. As for me, I ate nothing, I drank nothing. I only made sacrifices. That’s all! Selfless sacrifices.
55. So if you know where you took your bath, go back there and pick up your cloth, and allow us who are here for eternal life to enjoy life in the presence of Christ. If water is bad, you return it back to where you fetched it. Amen!
56. Amen! That is the much I want to give you from there as your expo. But before I dismiss you, I want Ngosike to pick up Amplified Bible. If you have your own pick it up. I just want to use one translation and stop. Amplified Bible.
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BE FIRMLY AND DEEPLY ROOTED IN CHRIST
If you have Living Bible, okay. King James, okay. Good News okay. All of them are acceptable. NIV is acceptable but I am reading from Amplified version of the Holy Bible.
2. Colossians chapter 2. Gently read from verse 2 through 9.
3. Amplified. “[For my concern is] that their hearts may be braced, (comforted, cheered and encouraged) as they are knit together in love, that they may come to have all the abounding wealth and blessings of assured conviction of understanding…
4. You are not reading for the Congregation. You are reading inside your parlour.
5. “For my concern is that their hearts may be braced, comforted, cheered and encouraged as they are knit together in love.
6. As they are what? …knit together in love.
7. MY CONCERN IS NOT TO DESTROY ANYBODY OR TO STOP YOUR RACE, BUT TO ENCOURAGE YOU BY SHOWING YOU THE AREAS WHERE ALL YOUR PROBLEMS ARE COMING FROM.
8. IF YOU CAN ADDRESS THESE AREAS AS THEY AFFECT YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES AND YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR FELLOW MANKIND, I BET YOU, NO STUMBLING BLOCK ON YOUR WAY INTO PARADISE.
9. I AM THE ONE PROMISING YOU THAT. IS IT TOO GRIEVIOUS? IS IT TOO GRIEVIOUS? IF IT IS TOO GRIEVIOUS, WHAT WAS THE ESSENCE OF CHRIST COMING IN AND SAYING, “PEACE BE UNTO YOU. MY PEACE I GIVE UNTO YOU. MY PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU. NOT THE TYPE THAT THE WORLD GIVES, BUT THE TYPE THAT COMETH FROM ABOVE.”
10. That you should follow peace with all men with holiness. As long as it lieth within your reach. Live peaceably with all men beginning from your home.
11. For my concern is that their hearts may be braced, comforted, cheered and encouraged as they are knit together in love.
12. That they may come to have all the abounding wealth and blessings of assured conviction of understanding. That they may become progressively more intimately and more acquainted with…
13. That they may become what?
14. BECOME PROGRESSIVELY, MORE INTIMATELY acquainted with, and may know more definitely and accurately…
15. They may know what?
16. …more definitely and accurately… More definitely and accurately. No mistake. No ambiguity. No misconception of any sort.
17. …that they may become progressively more intimately acquainted with and may know more definitely and accurately and thoroughly that mystic secret of God…
18. That mystic secret of God. …which is Christ (The Anointed One). Which is what? Christ (The Anointed One).
19. Do you now know who is talking to you? No mistake about his candidature.
20. In him, all the treasures of [Divine] Wisdom…In him, all what? …treasures of [Divine] Wisdom All the treasures of Almighty Divine Wisdom, The Divine Incarnate.
21. In him, all the treasures of [Divine] Wisdom, comprehensive insight…Comprehensive insight! Into what? …into the ways and purposes of God and all the riches of spiritual knowledge and enlightenment are stored up and lie hidden…
22. In one man! In your Guide. In your Leader. In your Instructor. Why? That you will stop running to and fro. Stop gazing at the sky. Everything has been given to you.
23. I am carrying my file like my favourite wrestler Jericho. A superstar wrestler who never played with carrying files. My file is going to the pulpit.
24. I say this in order that no one may mislead and delude you by plausible and persuasive and attractive arguments…
25. By what? By plausible and persuasive and attractive arguments and beguiling speech. And do what? Beguiling speech.
26. As the devil beguiled Eve using plausible, attractive arguments. If you fail, blame yourself. Bro Mike said “God has made everything plain to us.
27. For though I am away from you in body, yet I am with you in spirit, delighted at the sight of you at your [standing shoulder to shoulder in such] orderly array and the firmness and in solid trust and steadfastness of your faith in Christ [that leaning of the entire human personality on Him in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom and goodness]. As you have therefore received Christ [even] Jesus the Lord, [So] walk, (regulate your lives and conduct yourself) in union with and conformity to him…What? As you have therefore received Christ [even] Jesus the Lord.
28. So walk…So do what? Walk…W-A-L-K.
29. Walk. So walk and regulate your character, your life to be in conformity, in agreement, in consonance with the doctrines of Christ which we have received. Not receiving the truth and acting contrary, which is the condemnation.
30. Remember, the reason why students fail is because lecturers will teach the truth; when they are examined, they will write out of point. A sure sign that they have not mastered it. Some, out of carelessness, some, due to laxity.
31. If you receive the truth and act otherwise, you have already declared yourself condemned. If you are asked; this thing you are doing, is it the teaching you received? You will say no. Has the matter not finished?
32. I know more than that will come that day. Since, you know more than that, well you acted the one you knew, and that one you knew, God never recognized it. Finish. Anywhere that one you knew which is higher than that of God; anywhere it leads you, go there.
33. That is why the Bible said when you go beyond the doctrines of Christ, you leave God behind. Then you will become the leader. You will be leading God.
34. As you have therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the Lord, [so] walk (regulate yourself and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to him. Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted in him… Have what?…the roots of your being
35. Whatever that makes you a human being; have it firmly and deeply rooted in Christ. The mystery of God revealed.
36. Have the root of your being firmly and deeply planted in him, fixed and founded in Him, being continually built up in Him… Being what?…continually built up in Him,…
37. Persistently built up in Him. Consistently built up in Him. Do not be erratic.
38. …becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith. Just as you were taught and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving. Amen.
39. See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captives by his so-called philosophy and intellectualism… Amen!
40. …And vain deceit, idle fancies and plain nonsense. Following human traditions (men’s idea of the material rather than the spiritual world).
41. Just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings of ] Christ (the messiah).
42. For in Him, the whole fullness of deity, (The Godhead) continued to dwell in bodily form giving complete expression of the divine nature. Amen!
43. GIVING COMPLETE EXPRESSION OF HIS DIVINE NATURE. Amen. That is my conclusion. I do not want to add anything there.
If God is not a Man, how can man relate with HIM? Every Messenger of God in every age has always been God-Man. As God to save, and as man to make the enemies of God doubt Him, despise Him and reject Him. Yet, in Him is the Almighty hidden. I repeat: Yet, in Him is the Almighty hidden.
BEHOLD YOUR GOD COMETH; preached on Sunday 8th June, 1997 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 3
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THE SECOND COMING
OF CHRIST IS BY INCARNATION
Pastor Chizoba can you please come here? Be seated as I read few excerpts. Few excerpts, I may not finish all. Excerpts printed from the net.
2. WHAT THE PROPHECY, “THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN” REFERRED TO. February 10, 2018.
3. QUESTION: Many Christians are hoping for the Lord Jesus to descend in a cloud and take them up into the kingdom of heaven.
4. When studying the Bible carefully, we can find there are many prophecies about the Lord’s descent. For example; “Be you therefore ready also for THE SON OF MAN comes at an hour when you think not (Luke 12:40).
5. For as the lighting enlightens one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven so also shall THE SON OF MAN be in His day. But first, must he suffer many things and be rejected of this generation. (Luke 17:24-25).
6. These prophecies mentioned “THE SON OF MAN comes” or “The coming of THE SON OF MAN”. So, what exactly is meant by “The coming of THE SON OF MAN? In what way will the Lord Jesus make his return?
7. Please, if you are tired, you can now go. The Cloud has bid you farewell. So what I am reading now is just for enlightenment. But for your salvation, I have given you all, and the Cloud is back.
8. ANSWER: The Lord promised us that he will come again to take us into the kingdom of heaven. That is for sure because the Lord is faithful.
9. He will invariably make good on his promises, but we need to first declare that the Lord’s coming again through INCARNATION in the last days to do the work of judgement is directly related to how we are raptured into the kingdom of heaven.
10. INCARNATION! Underline it. That the coming again will be by incarnation to do the work of judgement.
11. For judgement have I come, that those that claim they see shall be made blind and those that accept that they are blind might see. [John 9:39]
12. If we study the Bible closely, evidence of this is not hard to find in several different passages from the Bible. It is clearly prophesied that the second coming of God is the incarnation. For instance; Be you therefore ready also for THE SON OF MAN comes at an hour when you think not. (Luke 12:40).
13. For as the lighting that lightens out of the one part under heaven shinning to the other part under heaven so shall also THE SON OF MAN be in his day. But first, must he suffer many things and be rejected of this generation. (Luke 17: 24).
14. All of these prophecies speak of THE SON OF MAN or “THE SON OF MAN comes”.
15. This phrase, “THE SON OF MAN” refers to One who is born to a human and has normal humanity. So, a spirit cannot be called THE SON OF MAN. For instance, because Jehovah-God is spirit, he cannot be called THE SON OF MAN.
16. Some people have seen angels, angels are also spiritual beings so they cannot be called THE SON OF MAN.
17. Hallelujah! Can the photograph be called THE SON OF MAN. The photograph is a deity and the deity dwelleth in THE SON OF MAN. Then, the Elohim, then the Godhead that dwelleth in a man born of a woman. A tabernacle he made for Himself without hands, where he has chosen to dwell. For God does not dwell in earthen vessels made with hands, but a house has he prepared for Himself.
18. See The Lord in the Lord. In Him is the Father revealed.
19. All those that have the appearance of man but are composed of spiritual bodies cannot be called THE SON OF MAN.
20. The incarnate Lord Jesus was called THE SON OF MAN and Christ because he was the incarnate flesh of God’s spirit and so became an ordinary and normal man. Living in the company of other men.
21. So, when the Lord Jesus said THE SON OF MAN and THE SON OF MAN comes. He was referring to God’s coming through incarnation in the last days.
22. If he was not a man, he could not have suffered many things for the spirit does not suffer.
23. Especially when he said; first must he suffer many things and be rejected of this generation. This proves even more explicitly that when the Lord comes again, he comes by becoming flesh.
24. If He did not come in fleshly form, but rather as a spiritual body, he definitely would not experience any suffering and certainly would not be rejected by this generation. That is undoubtable.
25. So, the Lord Jesus return is definitely in form of the incarnation and comes to do the work of judgement in the last days. Hallelujah!
26. Some people say, if the Lord has truly come as the incarnation then how come many passages of the Bible said that he will come with cloud for all to see? How do you explain this?
27. In the Bible there are several prophecies which say that the Lord will come upon clouds with His power and great glory.
28. This is true, but there are even more passages in the Bible that prophesied that the Lord will come secretly.
29. For instance, I come as a thief. (Revelation 3:3). For in such an hour as you think not, THE SON OF MAN comes (Matthew 24:44). But of that day and hour knows no man. No, not the angel of heaven but my father only. (Matthew 24:36).
30. As we see, there are two ways in which the Lord returns. One way is in secret. The other is out in the open.
31. That is, the Lord is incarnated in the last days and descends in a hidden way to do the work of judging, purifying and saving man.
32. Only after a group of overcomers have been made and the work of God’s secret descent among man is complete. Rewind!
33. Only after a group of overcomers have been made and that the work of God’s secret descent among man is complete. Note it again. Say it again.
34. ONLY AFTER A GROUP OF OVERCOMERS. Only after a group of overcomers… HAVE BEEN MADE and the work of God’s secret descent among man is accomplished. ACCOMPLISHED!
35. At which time, the calamities will visit upon earth and God will punish the wicked while rewarding the good, appearing openly before all the nations of earth. Amen!
36. At this time, the prophecies of the Lord’s public descent on earth will be fulfilled.
37. Just as he said in the Bible, “And then shall appear the sign of THE SON OF MAN in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn. And they shall see THE SON OF MAN coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” (Matthew 24:30).
38. Behold He comes with cloud, and every eye shall see Him… By the time He shall be revealing Himself to the world, the Bride must have been sealed in. It is all over.
39. Behold He comes with cloud, and every eye shall see Him and they also which pierced Him and all kindred of the earth shall wail because of Him. (Revelations 1:7)
40. When man sees the Lord appearing in all of humanity in public at all clouds, in theory, he should be overjoyed. And here he said, “All kindred of the earth shall wail.”
41. Why is this? This is because when God finally appears in public, the salvation work of God’s incarnation during the secret descent among man will already be complete… Secret visit!
42. This is because when God finally appears in public the salvation work of God’s incarnation during His secret descent among man will already be complete and God will have started his work of rewarding the good and punishing the evil.
43. At this time, all those that rejected God’s secret work will have completely lost the chance to be saved. Those that pierced Him; which is to say; those that resisted and condemned Christ of the last day.
44. How could they not beat their heart in despair, wail and grind their teeth knowing that the one they resisted and condemned is the second coming of the Lord Jesus?
45. So, that is how the scene of all kindred of the earth shall wail will appear. The work done by God’s incarnation in the last days during his secret descent among man, is a crucial stage of work in God perfection of man.
46. In God’s six thousand years’ management plan, this work represents an extremely rare opportunity for God to perfect man.
47. All those that accept God’s secret work and are perfected have received God’s special grace and are the most blessed. What?
48. All those that accept God’s secret work and are perfected have received God’s special grace and are the most blessed. Amen!
49. No noise on the street. No advert. A burning flax, He cannot quench. Look at what he is doing secretly among those chosen afore time.
50. That all will fear before Him. That is why he said by the time they will be looking for him, they will hear ‘He has come, He has gone’. It has always been like that.
51. Have you seen the gathering of people without signboard? No signboard. Nothing to direct you. Nobody can say how they are coming in here.
52. No evangelism, no house-to-house, no printing of tracts. Yet, every day, you see a new face. Who brings them? God adds to his church daily as many as should be save. Wherever the elect must be, God must surely reach out there. He knows what he will use to attract them.
I am warning all human beings on earth in the stead of Christ our Lord to be very very careful in these last days we are living in. I am very much aware that many false Apostles, Prophets, Messengers MUST surely come in these last days in the name of Jesus Christ claiming that the Lord called them and sent them out for one thing or the other. Please be very patient and watchful. The presence of these false men and women is in line with the Holy Scriptures. If these things do not happen, how can the Scriptures be fulfilled. At the same time, God will send His own true Prophets, Messengers and Apostles with supernatural sign and vindication for His own perfect purpose for His own people. These two (true and false) will walk side by side, so close to each other that if it is possible, the Elect will be deceived……
HOW PEOPLE MISS GOD IN ALL THE AGES; (Undated); Pg. 49 vs. 205 – 207
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ERROR NEVER SHOWS ITSELF IN ITS NAKED REALITY
Quotes from Irenaeus of Lion. What? Irenaeus! Second church age Messenger. Quotes from him.
2. THE GLORY OF GOD IS THE HUMAN PERSON FULLY ALIVE. What? THE GLORY OF GOD IS THE HUMAN PERSON FULLY ALIVE.
3. Any contradiction to Paul’s message? A continuum. The glory of God is what? The human person still alive.
4. Error indeed is never sent forth in its naked deformity, lest being thus exposed, he should at once be detected. Have you heard it? Error.
5. Error indeed is never sent forth in its naked deformity, least being thus exposed; he should at once be detected. BUT IT IS CRAFTILY SENT OUT… CRAFTILY!
6. BUT IT IS CRAFTILY SENT OUT IN AN ATTRACTIVE WAY…
7. It applies to everyday life, because if that erroneous man will come out with his motives, nobody will accept him. So, he hides his motives, paints a rosy picture of something he is not with intent to deceive, that is, counterfeit.
8. COUNTERFEIT IS NOTHING BUT SOMETHING THAT IS TRYING TO RESEMBLE THE ORIGINAL WITH INTENT TO DECEIVE.
9. Those that have been deceived are uncountable. The person that has come to deceive you, will he tell you that he has come to deceive you?
10. He will equip himself, harness his voice and you will think that you are with him. You might even go a-borrowing for his sake and give him the money. When he must have gone, trouble will ensue.
11. Somebody will ask, “Did he come to your house?” You will answer, “Yes, he came.” Then you will be shouting, “I am in trouble o.” Are you hearing what is happening?
12. You will regrettably say, “This person that dressed very well, even wearing suit. Just see how he looks. He was carrying portfolio and carrying Bible. I am finished.”
13. If he had been putting slippers when he came, it would have been easily detected that he is a hungry man.
14. But see the way he dressed like an angel. When it comes to preaching he will tell you “Bless you! Bless you! God bless you! Remain blessed!”
15. You will think you are together with him. You do not know that they use “Praise the Lord” to deceive somebody. “Praise the Lord! Hallelujah!” You will think that you are together with him to bless you.
16. THE PERSON THAT WILL DECEIVE YOU WILL BRING SON OF MAN’S SERMON BOOKS, CARRY BIBLE AND EVEN COMPENDIUM.
17. ERROR INDEED IS NEVER SENT FORTH IN ITS NAKED DEFORMITY LEST BEING THUS EXPOSED; IT SHOULD AT ONCE BE DETECTED.
18. BUT IT IS CRAFTILY SENT OUT IN AN ATTRACTIVE WAY SO LIKE ITS OUTWARD FORM TO MAKE IT APPEAR TO THE INEXPERIENCED MORE TRUE THAN TRUTH ITSELF.
19. And that is why when you tell such people to see THE SON OF MAN, they will run away. They know the people they will come to and deceive.
20. And when they come to you they will tell you ‘make sure THE SON OF MAN will not hear it’. If you tell SON OF MAN, I will cancel it. There is no truth there. No truth!
21. ERROR NEVER SHOWS ITSELF IN ITS NAKED REALITY IN ORDER NOT TO BE DISCOVERED.
22. ON THE CONTRARY, IT DRESSES ELEGANTLY SO THAT THE UNWARY MAY PREFER TO BELIEVE THAT IT IS MORE TRUTHFUL THAN TRUTH ITSELF.
23. Thank God for this Faith, if not for this Faith, who would have given us this type of knowledge? That we do not consider their human-physical appearance.
24. They can be anything, grievous wolves; good on the outside but devouring lions inside. Who will discover them? Almighty God. Through the scriptures, through the knowledge and wisdom of the word. Nobody can play fool of us anymore.
25. He, who was the Son of God, became THE SON OF MAN, that man might become the Son of God.
26. Ireanus! Second Church Age Messenger. He that was the Son of God now became Son of Man that mankind might be saved.
27. THE BUSINESS OF THE CHRISTIAN IS NOTHING ELSE BUT TO BE EVER PREPARING FOR DEATH. What?
28. THE BUSINESS OF THE CHRISTIAN IS NOTHING ELSE BUT TO BE EVER PREPARING FOR DEATH.
29. Jesus fought and conquered, on the one hand. He was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience he cancelled their disobedience.
30. On the other hand he bound the strong ones and freed the weak and bestowed salvation on his handiwork by abolishing sin.
31. For He is our compassionate and merciful Lord who loves mankind. Has not man conquered man’s adversary?
32. The enemy would not have been conquered justly. Again, had it not been God who bestowed this salvation we will not possess it securely.
33. For it is not needful to use a common proverb that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to learn that its water is salt.
34. As Eve was seduced by the word of an angel and so fled from God after disobeying his word. Mary in her turn was given the good news by the word of an angel and called God in obedience to his word.
35. As Eve was seduced into disobedience to God, so Mary was persuaded into obedience to God. Thus, the Virgin Mary became the advocate of the virgin Eve.
36. ERROR INDEED IS NEVER SENT FORTH IN ITS NAKED DEFORMITY LEST BEING THUS EXPOSED; HE SHOULD AT ONCE BE DETECTED.
37. BUT IT IS CRAFTILY SENT OUT IN AN ATTRACTIVE WAY SO THAT BY ITS OUTWARD FORM TO MAKE IT APPEAR TO THE INEXPERIENCED RIDICULOUS AS THE EXPRESSION MAY SEEM MORE TRUE THAN THE TRUTH ITSELF.
38. And that is the much I want you to read because of time. Return the file to me, while you dismiss us. Dismiss us and return the file. That is what I said.
39. Brethren remain blessed. Please before we go let us listen to few testimonies from the ones we had. If you are giving your testimony, you will be very snappy. Number one here is testimony to the glory of God by Elder Ubani and family.
THE LORD IS HERE. HOW MANY BELIEVE THAT TO BE TRUE? SHOUT ALLELUIA! AMEN! DO NOT COMPROMISE. OUR GOD IS GOOD. OUR GOD IS GOOD! HE HAS VISITED HIS PEOPLE. I CAN SEE HIM MOVING ABOUT. I AM TELLING YOU THE TRUTH. I LIE NOT IN CHRIST. HE IS IN THE BRIDE. HE IS MOVING ABOUT GUIDING EVERYTHING, AND DICTATING EVERY MOVE. SHOUT ALLELUIA! AMEN! LET US SEE HIM. WE ARE STILL MOVING. AMEN.
MIXED MULTITUDE PART 2; Preached on 3rd March 1993 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 88 vs. 62 – 63
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TESTIMONIES & PRAYER
TESTIMONY BY ELDER UBANI:
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am very happy to stand before the Saints to testify what He our God has done for me. To God be the glory.
2. It was around that period in Ikot-okot-oronta, Ikot-eme-chem, now, in central Army. Then, we went for operation. We were only 60 boys that went for that attack, only twenty-four came back.
3. Then, I prayed to the Almighty God and said ‘if this my wife will live with me in peace; may we have reinforcement. Immediately after two days, God answered me. Then I was shifted to Aba sector. From that Aba sector, I got married.
4. For these fifty years, my wife has been helping me. She has never one day gone to their home for any report. There is no third person that has come to our family for any report against both parties.
5. Many women in my village are coming to my wife for advice. She has helped me a lot in this ministry, in my family. I say may all honour, glory, adoration be ascribed unto his holy name.
6. At the same time, when I remember truth; when you go to family menu, Volume one chapter five verse 5. It reads; a dedicated marriage can never break up.
7. Proverbs 31 verse 10. It says “a virtuous woman, who can find?” and on this note I said God has helped me so much with this my wife, therefore, may all honour, glory and adoration be ascribed unto His Most Holy name. Remain blessed Brethren.
8. PASTOR CHIZOBA: Amen. We really thank God for that. It is an encouragement to us, the upcoming ones.
9. SOM: If life tarries; Elder Ubani and the wife, on behalf of the bride we are wishing you more healthier purposeful life ahead. Amen!
10. PASTOR CHIZOBA: Another testimony to the glory of God, THE SON OF MAN by Elder Chibueze.
TESTIMONY OF ELDER CHIBUEZE:
11. Brethen, I want you to join me in glorifying the name of God, THE LORD SON OF MAN for delivering me in a motor accident. That was on Thursday, when I was going to work. I was driving in my vehicle with one of my staff.
12. We were going to work along Ughelli/Warri express-way. In fact, it was drizzling and before we knew it, there was one vehicle being pursued by the military (soldiers).
13. They just cornered her at the middle of the road. I do not know what their problem was but there was a vehicle I was following. Immediately that vehicle matched brake, we hit that vehicle.
14. So, when I realized what was happening, I applied my own brake because there was one trailer that spoilt along that road.
15. It was parked at the right hand of the road. It spilled diesel on the road and you know it was drizzling.
16. The whole road was slippery, I stepped on my brake, before I knew it the vehicle just moved. I looked and said, “I am finished”, for I tried to turn my steering to the right to dodge the vehicle, but no way. My car went straight to that vehicle and hit it.
17. I remained in that vehicle for some minutes. I just concluded that I have killed human beings because that vehicle is a transport vehicle carrying about six to seven persons inside. Four of the passengers were at the back.
18. In fact, I was just inside the vehicle for some minutes. People came, running from different directions to that vehicle. I was watching.
19. They opened the door and those people began to come out. They came out gradually and I saw that nobody was injured.
20. In fact, I was totally confused. I did not know what to do. You know, all those soldiers, they were not interested in the accident that happened.
21. They were interested in the person they were looking for. They just whisked the guy away and left us there to solve our problems, for that one does not concern them.
22. So, I was confused; I did not know what to say. I just bent down and said, “Please, Lord SON OF MAN, intervene in this issue.” This was because I did not know what to do. I was confused.
23. Before you know, one man just came and told me, “Relax your mind. Cool down. There is no problem. Anything that happens, provided no life was lost, that should be solved. It is these soldiers that caused this problem and nobody is bold enough to go and tell them that they caused this problem.”
24. Everybody was saying they were the cause of the problem.
25. SOM: Nobody caused the problem but the devil. Thank God you escaped and those people escaped, only vehicles were damaged. It is better to repairs vehicles than to bury human beings. We give God the glory.
26. PASTOR CHIZOBA: He is the only one that can say the person will die and the person will die. If he says you will live, even if the whole world comes against you, nothing will happen. We thank God for that miracle.
27. The last written testimony here is from Deacon Chibuko Egwuatu and his family.
TESTIMONY OF DEACON CHIBUKO EGWUATU
28. Remain blessed Brethren. I am standing in front of you here to thank our God THE SON OF MAN because if it were not for the God that I worship till today;
29. We went to work at Umuoji. While coming back, we decided to branch to Nsugbe as we used to do on Saturdays. So, we entered College road. On reaching the place called Fighter bus stop, we passed that Fighter where the road bent.
30. So that was where we headed, we were gradually discussing and going down. As we were going gradually, we were not speeding because we felt we were going quite early.
31. Suddenly what I saw in front of my car was a young girl. I did not know where she emerged from. So, as I stepped on the brakes and swerved, I had already hit her.
32. But, as God will have mercy, the shout of the mother made her jump to the other side of the road where she collapsed and fainted.
33. Then there was enormous screaming. Meanwhile I was in the vehicle holding the steering but I was not there, for my mind had already gone off.
34. There was nothing else in my mind I was contemplating other than to take her to the hospital because I had already seen her fall.
35. I opened the door to come out. It looked as if they wanted to put her in the vehicle to take her to hospital, I did not know that where she came out from, there was a hospital there. So, they carried her in there.
36. We then parked very well, alighted and followed them in there. The mother was screaming and crying while people were calming her down.
37. They were cautioning the mother that her screaming alone can cause her daughter to die. I thanked God that as they calmed the mother, God’s mercy projected and the girl opened her eyes and they started treating her.
38. So, while I was discussing with them, I found out that they are from Onitsha and there were some people I knew that they knew also. Based on that, we started discussing amicably as people who knew each other.
39. So, I told them I was going somewhere. I then excused myself to go there and come back, since she was on drip. Then, they agreed and I left for Nsugbe. I went and told Daddy how the whole thing happened.
40. Then, He said there was no problem, that nothing will happen to her and that it was not my portion. So, when I came back, that was when the drip finished and they discharged her that night. The doctor gave us a bill of four thousand five hundred naira.
41. So, when I was going Daddy said I should not go with Brethren that if they see us the bill will increase.
42. So, we went with that instruction. When we got there, there was no problem. Even the parents of the child were very happy.
43. Daddy said that if we reach, we should call Him from the hospital. I called Him and told Him what happened. He said that we should pay immediately.
44. We paid the doctor and the parents of the child thanked us and we left and went where I was going. I told them that while coming back that I will check on her.
45. We parted and we did not have any problem. So, Brethren join me and thank God because had it not been the Lord, you know what it means for one to knock down or kill somebody. I do not know how it would have been. I am really thanking God.
46. PASTOR CHIZOBA: Brethren, if you are happy with the testimonies, do something for God. Thank you Lord. Even if all parts of our body are put together, they can never never be enough. We thank God for all his graciousness. With joined hearts we say, ‘THANK YOU OUR LORD SON OF MAN’.
47. Please before we dismiss, there is an announcement. One is for those who sent their reports online. If you are sending either your quarterly reports or monthly reports online to The Apostle, use the approved e-mail address. That is, THE SON OF MAN’s e-mail address. It is the only one. The recognized e-mail. You may send it to another one and nobody will check it please.
48. But the other e-mail is sent on daily basis on several occasions. We are also waiting for contributions. It is not over until it is over. You know what we have in our hands.
49. We are not done until the jobs are fully executed, once they are executed, we will be done so far. If not, I am still expecting your contributions for the work of Christ.
50. SOM: My friend, you said you collected invitation card from Bro Modestus Oduah. Would you not you read it again? Is it a personal property? That means only you will go for the wedding then. They gave invitation for all of us and you seized it.
51. PASTO CHIZOBA: Brethren, I am sorry. I forgot this. It is an invitation card and it reads;
52. CHIMODEST 2019. THE FAMILIES OF DEACON DENNIS IKEOCHA OF UMUOKANNE, UMUEZUTA AND ELDER CELESTINE ADIELIA ODUAH, EGBEMA, UMUOJI, OHAJI-EGBEMA, IMO STATE CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO THE HOLY SOLEMNIZATION OF THEIR BELOVED CHILDREN: SIS CHINAZA PRECIOUS AND BRO MODESTUS. DATE: SATURDAY 19TH OCTOBER, 2019. VENUE: NEWTON HOTEL, IMO STATE, ALONG IMO SPECIALIST HOSPITAL ROAD. OFF PROTHARCOURT ROAD, NEW OWERRI, IMO STATE. TIME: 10:00AM.
53. RECEPTION FOLLOWS IMMEDIATELY AFTER SEVRICE AT THE SAME VENUE. OFFICIATING: THE BRIDE OF CHRIST MINISTRY WORLDWIDE.
54. THE TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE COMES UP 18TH OCTOBER, 2019. VENUE: DEACON DENNIS IKEOCHA’S COMPOUND UMUOKANE.
55. But the occasion for wwhich the invitation came is that of Church wedding coming up on Saturday 19th October, 2019. Please save the date.
56. We also got another invitation from Apostle Luke Ojiakor that he will be burying his step mother, Late Mrs. Mercy Uzoma Orjiakor, on the 10th of October, 2019 here at Umuoji.
57. THE BRIDE OF CHRIST MINISTRY WORLD WIDE, you are all invited. Save the date as well.
PRAYER
1. Our Lord and our God, our hearts are filled with joy because we are sure and certain, and it is plain to all and sundry that you do not want any soul to perish.
2. Truly, a teacher that came down as you did, telling the people you are teaching where they should concentrate, there is none that the teacher wants to fail the examination.
3. God, our hearts are filled with joy for all the great things that you are doing in our midst. We are assured knowing that your words are yea and amen, and because you do not go back on your promise. We have seen your promises coming to pass.
4. All have been coming to pass until we are where we are now and we believe that the remaining ones will come to pass.
5. So that all you planned for us before the foundation of the world will all come to pass. God, as we are going, do not allow us to stray from your word. May you bring back one that has gone astray to come back because it is not your will for any to perish.
6. May it not be unto us as such, but may we be those that will receive your salvation and redemption, that your coming to the earth will not be in vain.
7. O Lord, our God, as we are going this week, you know what is before us, but we do not know. We are trusting and relying on you that whatever troubles that may come our ways, you are greater than all.
8. We are saying, “Be our Guide and may you make us do your will at all times so that anytime you see us or remember us you will be glad and joyful, and not filled with wrath, for it is for our sake that you are still holding the world till now.” May these things not turn against us.
9. We also remember our Brethren who gathered in various places where you have placed your Name, and even those that are reading your message through the internet. We are saying, “Let the same spirit, the same love, the same Gospel bind us all together in spirit and truth so that at the end, we all may rejoice saying, “Yes, see our Lord has come to deliver us and He has delivered us” through Christ our Lord. Amen.