A SURE ANCHOR VOLUME 2 ON Sunday, 18th July 2021 AT THE VOICE OF GOD STUDIO The Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe Anambra State, Nigeria BY Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN THE ALPHA AND OMEGA
34Who is there to condemn [us]? Will Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who died, or rather Who was raised from the dead, Who is at the right hand of God actually pleading as He intercedes for us? 35Who shall ever separate us from Christ’s love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword?
ROMANS 8:34 – 35 Amplified Version
GOD IS A BLACK MAN REVEALING HIMSELF WORLDWIDE IN THESE LAST DAYS FROM NIGERIA. BELIEVE IT IF YOU CAN
-THE SON OF MAN
God is a Nigerian if not… Obasanjo Vanguard Newspaper 2nd July, 2019
“God is a Nigerian because what we have gone through in Nigeria and what we are going through, probably, Nigeria should not be on the map of the world. That’s why I say God is a Nigerian. God has been kind to us; if not, the country would have ceased to exist”
……You have no reasonable excuse to give as far as the present stage of the Ministry is concerned. God has revealed His invisible nature and we have seen it. We are sure and certain, what God displayed in our midst was His invisible nature. Right from the beginning of Creation, God has manifested it in diverse ways. One of the most important ways was through the Pillar of Cloud. Pillar of Cloud by day and Pillar of Light by night, because light shines brightest in darkness. We have seen God in form of Pillar of fire
– THE SON OF MAN –
THOU ART INEXCUSABLE BEFORE GOD; Preached on 19th September 2002; Pg. 127 vs. 15 – 21
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THIS IS THE PERIOD OF SHAKING IN THE BRIDE
watch the Message as we are going through it. Note what I am saying very clearly. Every loose feather on the body of a fowl is dead.
2. If a fowl harbours feathers that are dead, watch. Every morning, the fowl comes out from its roost and shakes it body or stretches its body, which is the habit of every fowl, what takes place? What takes place? All lose feathers will fall off. True or false?
3. There is one thing common with those loose feathers. If you pick any of them and look at the point where it detached or fell off from the body of the fowl, it is dry. It is dry.
4. There is no sign of water. And there is no sign of blood, showing that the capillaries that convey blood to that feather has stopped supplying water and blood.
5. It is just like every hair in your body. There is no hair on a human body that is not connected to a capillary and nerves. A human being has too many nerves.
6. Apart from the arteries and veins, there is also the capillaries which are small small; tiny tiny fibres linking nerves. In every finger, you have many of them.
7. Every hair on your body is connected to a capillary. That is why, when you pull it out, you see blood and you see water.
8. But if it is dead, it turns white. And when you remove it, you will not see any sign of blood or water.
9. This is so, especially the hairs on your eye lid. Is it not true? When it is dead, it begins to discomfort your eyes. You will be rubbing your eyes because it is dead and it will be discomforting you until it falls off. It may even be blurring your vision until you remove it.
10. So, the dead Feathers discomfort the body of the fowl. As a result of the discomfort of those dead feathers, every morning when the fowl comes out from the roost and shakes its body, all those dead feathers will fall off. Then the weight of the fowl has become lighter.
11. So, when a human being is alive, he does not have weight, but when he dies, his weight increases. Did you get the Message?
12. That is why anybody who is dead while he is alive, by neglecting the Word of God; by ridiculing the Word of God, by mocking and by disobeying, the person is a burden God will not bear. His weight is heavier than what God will accommodate.
13. I am saying that such a person becomes a discomfort to the Body of Christ because he is receiving Water and he is receiving Blood, which is the Word of God.
14. THE WORD OF GOD IS THE WATER. THE WORD OF GOD IS THE BLOOD THAT WASHES AND CLEANSES THE HEART OF THE SIN OF UNBELIEF IF YOU RECEIVE IT.
15. So, the great shaking is going on right now in the Bride as prophesied by William Branham. He said, “There is a great shaking going on right now in the midst of the Bride. All those loose feathers must surely fall off from the Body before translation will take place.”
16. So there is going to be a shaking that will reveal the material everybody is made up of; that will reveal what is in you and what is in Me; that will reveal who you are and who I am; that will reveal all hypocrisies that are in man.
17. A great shaking is on right now in the midst of the Bride. That is why I keep on saying, “This is the era; the period of falling away.”
18. I will not be surprised if a whole family will fall away from the Faith of Christ; from the Grace of God. It has been happening from the very beginning.
19. In the Bible, Saint Paul mentioned families that fell away from the grace of God, and gave themselves over to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons to material acquisition, to the things of this world, pleasures and reunited with their former associations.
20. 1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [1 Timothy 4:1 KJV]
21. 1BUT THE [Holy] Spirit distinctly and expressly declares that in latter times some will turn away from the faith, giving attention to deluding and seducing spirits and doctrines that demons teach, [1 Timothy 4:1 AMP]
22. “18Note: If this ministry of the Bride is the same ministry of the Bridegroom as predicted by Prophet Branham, let it be known to you that it must come to a point where many people must draw back from following and will go back to their former association saying that the message is offensive, unbearable and false and nobody can be expected to hear or listen to such teaching.
23. 19“When His disciples heard this, many of them said, This is a hard and difficult and strange saying (an offensive and unbearable message). Who can stand to hear it? (Who can be expected to listen to such teaching?). 20After this, many of His disciples drew back (returned to their old associations) and no longer accompanied Him.” (John 6:60, 66 AMP). [THE GREAT SERMON AND HOLY GHOST INSPIRED REVELATIONS AND EPISTLES– REVISED EDITION 2019; EPISTLE 18; Page 431 verses 18 through 20]
24. Some will be reunited with their own townsmen and women and become one with them. Enmity does not exist between them and their heathen relations again.
25. WHO IS COMPROMISING? HAVE YOUR HEATHEN RELATIONS REPENTED AND BELIEVED WHAT YOU BELIEVE? OR HAVE YOU DROPPED YOUR BELIEF AND JOINED THEM? ONE MUST BE THE TRUTH.
26. WHEREVER THERE IS COMPROMISE, ONE HAS SURRENDERED WHAT HE WAS HOLDING BEFORE AND JOINED THE OTHER. TRUE OR FALSE?
27. WHAT REMOVED THE ENMITY? WHAT REMOVED THAT EVIL SPEAKING? WHAT REMOVED THAT DISCRIMINATION? WHY HAVE YOU BECOME ONE OVERNIGHT?
28. WHO SOUGHT FOR WHOM? WERE THEY THE PEOPLE SEEKING US, OR ARE WE THE ONES GOING TO THEM APOLOGETICALLY, PRETENDING IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER?
29. ALL THOSE PRETENSES MUST BE MADE PUBLIC. ANY DAY LIGHT COMPROMISES WITH DARKNESS, SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG SOMEWHERE.
30. 14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
31. 16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. [2 Corinthians 6:14 – 16 KJV]
32. 14Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?
33. 16What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. [2 Corinthians 6:14 – 16 ESV]
34. If your heathen relations are still holding unto their grounds, and then there is peace between two of you; there is harmony; and there is contentment, it then means that you must have dropped your first conviction of the truth. You have now gone back to your former association.
35. From that point, you will no longer see the difference between the children of God and the children of the devil. In all their funerals, you are there. In all their parties, you are there. Everything pertaining to your heathen relations, you must attend all because they will be expecting you.
36. All invitations pertaining to your heathen friends and relations, there is not even one that will be abominable again. All of them will be approved because you have abandoned the Faith of Christ.
37. You are now one with the heathens who will see you there and mock and laugh at you. They will mock you. They will laugh at you. They will scoff at you.
38. “My friend! Did we not tell him that he will later come back to us? He has come back. The day we went to that other place, we were with him. At the other event, he was there. She was even there with her fellow women folk [daughters of the clan]. He was there with our townsmen and women. He now attends all ceremonies. He is now complying with all the stipulations of the community.”
39. Then you will be thinking that God is not seeing you. If God will ask you, “Why are you there?”, or God will ask you, “Where are you?”, tell Me, what will be your reply.
40. And these people that have wandered away from the Faith have fallen away completely. They are dead while they are moving about. They have become our greatest tempters.’
41. When somebody falls away from the Faith, and is sitting down in the midst of the Brethren, he becomes a tempter of the Brethren. I say a tempter.
42. Such a fellow will now be the one that tempts the believers. He becomes a devil in disguise sitting in the midst of the Brethren.
43. That is why God said, “Be very careful about an Elder, man or woman, young or old, somebody who has stayed long in the Faith, but has fallen away, and yet he is still sitting down there, pretending to be one of you when he is not.”
44. He will be there encouraging all manner of evil. He can never condemn evil. And those who are evil will only be seeking advice from such a fellow. He or she becomes a wicked counselor among the Brethren, approving what God has disapproved and loving what God hates because he knows very well that he cannot be restored to Christ anymore.
45. One that is fallen knows that he is fallen. And he knows the various ways he will cause others to fall so that all of them will suffer the same fate.
46. That was what the devil did in the beginning. That is why you must be on the alert.
47. 1NOW THE serpent was more subtle and crafty than any living creature of the field which the Lord God had made. And he [Satan] said to the woman, Can it really be that God has said, You shall not eat from every tree of the garden?
48. 2And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit from the trees of the garden, 3Except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, You hall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. 4BUT THE SERPENT SAID TO THE WOMAN, YOU SHALL NOT SURELY DIE, [Genesis 3:1 – 4 AMP]
49. 16Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves; BE WARY AND WISE AS SERPENTS, and be innocent (harmless, guileless, and without falsity) as doves. 17BE ON GUARD AGAINST MEN [WHOSE WAY OR NATURE IS TO ACT IN OPPOSITION TO GOD]; for they will deliver you up to councils and flog you in their synagogues, [Matthew 10:16 – 17 AMP]
50. You must be circumspect. Do not sleep. Awake thou that sleepeth, for the night is far spent.
51. A GREAT SHAKING IS ON AMONG THE SUPERNATURAL BELIEVERS RIGHT NOW. A GREAT SHAKING IS ON. THE HOUR WE ARE IN IS SHAKING EVERYBODY. SITUATIONS ARE SHAKING EVERYBODY. ECONOMY IS SHAKING. VIOLENCE IS SHAKING. HARDSHIP IS SHAKING.
52. AM I MAKING SENSE? SICKNESSES AND DISEASES ARE SHAKING EVERYBODY. IN SHORT, THE WHOLE EARTH IS BEING SHAKEN BY THE ALMIGHTY GOD.
53. WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF THE SHAKING? IT IS SCRIPTURAL. IT IS SO THAT THOSE WITHOUT SOLID FOUNDATION WILL BE SHAKEN AWAY; SHAKEN OFF. AND THAT THOSE WHO CANNOT BE SHAKEN WILL REMAIN IMMOVABLE, STEADFAST, UNSHAKABLE.
54. When the fowl comes out from the roost in the morning, and shakes its body, those feathers that are dead but are still attached to the body will be shaken off. Is it not true?
55. Then creating room for those that could not be shaken off to remain firmer and firmer and firmer, to nourish themselves more and more.
56. By sucking the fowl’s blood and water without bearing the fruit thereof, it is better they are shaken off.
57. THE SON OF MAN IS HAVING HIS HAND IN WHAT IS HAPPENING GLOBALLY. THERE IS A GREAT SHAKING GOING ON AMONG THE SUPERNATURAL BELIEVERS.
58. WE ARE WORSHIPPING A SUPERNATURAL GOD. IT TAKES A SUPERNATURAL FELLOW TO UNDERSTAND AND WORSHIP A SUPERNATURAL GOD.
59. A NATURALLY MINDED FELLOW CAN NEVER WORSHIP A SUPERNATURAL GOD, AND CAN NEVER UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE OF A SUPERNATURAL MAN, FOR EVERYTHING IS SUPERNATURALLY DISCERNED. DO YOU BELIEVE IT?
60. Watch all these people that are natural, earthly and sensual among us. their eyes and their whole attention is to make all ends meet here on earth:
61. How they will ride Porsche cars, build mansions, buy this and buy that, do this and do that so that poverty will be eradicated throughout their generations. Has it ever happened anywhere before? Who has ever promised that nonsense?
62. Watch them that call themselves “Brethren” among you. Many of them are wolves in sheep clothing, man and woman.
63. The days are over, when if we mention this you begin to look at the men only. Women are equally inclusive.
64. THE CONDITION FOR SALVATION FOR MEN IS THE SAME CONDITION FOR SALVATION FOR WOMEN, FOR IN GOD, THERE IS NO MAN; THERE IS NO WOMAN. YOU BETTER TAKE NOTE OF WHAT I AM SAYING AS FAR AS SALVATION IS CONCERNED.
65. Rather, in every place, whosoever that feareth, honoureth and obeyeth the LORD, man or woman, young or old, that person is made acceptable unto God. AM I making sense at all?
66. 35But in every nation he who venerates and has a reverential fear for God, treating Him with worshipful obedience and living uprightly, is acceptable to Him and sure of being received and welcomed [by Him]. [Acts 10:35 AMP]
67. So pay attention to that Message. All that glitters is not gold. A great shaking is on. God is using everything to shake. It has always been like that.
68. A day came when God shook the people in Canaan. Those who did not have strong faith in God ran to Egypt. They ran to Egypt for help, but they came back dead. Some ran to Babylon for help. They came back dead. Some ran to the Moabites. They came back dead.
69. But those who remained steadfast where God said they should stay, not even one died of starvation. By the time those who exiled themselves from home could come back, those who remained had already become big big big big people. God had already prospered them.
70. That was why Naomi strayed away with the husband and the children, she lost the husband, lost the two sons and lost their wealth.
71. When they were coming back, they were coming back empty- handed. Then, Naomi said, “Call me no more Naomi. Call me Mara [meaning bitterness], for God had dealt with me treacherously.”
72. Why was she going back? She was in exile where she exiled herself because of hardship, and those people who remained steadfast at home, the LORD prospered them.
73. She heard the story that the LORD had revisited His people and He is now prospering them, and she announced it to the daughters-in-law, “Can you now go home. Go to your parents. I am going home, for the LORD has started prospering Israel once again.”
74. 1IN THE days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem of Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, his wife, and his two sons.
75. 2The man’s name was Elimelech and his wife’s name was Naomi and his two sons were named Mahlon [invalid] and Chilion [pining]; they were Ephrathites from Bethlehem of Judah. They went to the country of Moab and continued there.
76. 3But Elimelech, who Naomi’s husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. 4And they took wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They dwelt there about ten years;
77. 5And Mahlon and Chilion died also, both of them, so the woman was bereft of her two sons and her husband. 6Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in Moab how the Lord had visited His people in giving them food. [Ruth 1:1 – 6 AMP]
78. The same way, Moses announced to Jethro, “Follow me. Let us go home, for the LORD has spoken good concerning us. He has started prospering our people.”
79. Moses, of course, tried to persuade his father-in-law to stay. He said to him: “Do not think that we shall continue to move thus slowly through the desert, nay, we shall now move directly to the promised land.”
80. Only to urge Jethro to stay longer with them did Moses use the words “we move,” so that his father-in-law might believe that Moses too would enter the promised land, for otherwise he would hardly have allowed himself to be persuaded to join the march to Palestine.
81. Moses continued: “I do not want to mislead thee, hence I will tell thee that the land will be divided only among the twelve tribes, and that thou has no claim to possession of lands; but God bade us be kind to the proselytes, and to thee we shall be kinder than to all other proselytes.”… [LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME 3 – JETHRO REWARDED; Paragraph 170]
82. And those people who exiled themselves because of hardship, on returning, if they were alive, returned empty-handed. And the LORD said something, “It is only in returning and in waiting shall we be saved.” Do you believe it?
83. It is only in returning and waiting. Where do you wait? You return to Christ and you wait in your sanctified estate; in your undefiled estate. Only then will you have the hope of being saved in the end.
84. This is because whosoever that endureth till the end, the same shall be saved, and not those that will compromise before they get to the end or those that will run away before the end. To God be the glory.
…. we must give account of how we have lived this life before God. It is a MUST, whether we like it or not. The book of all My deeds and the book of your deeds will be placed before you. And then, nobody can tell lies on that day. Who recorded all those things? Allah! Why? He is swift in taking records. Anybody can make a mistake in taking records, but not the Almighty God. He takes record of everything. And they are documented so that when this life is over here, you are facing the judgment. The books of all your deeds will be paced before you.
– THE SON OF MAN –
RAMADAN VOICE Preached on Friday, 17th April, 2020; Chapter 5 verse 5 – 7
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ALLAH IS SWIFT IN TAKING RECORDS
Excerpts from the compilation, LOOK TO THE REDEEMER AS WE WAIT AT THE GATE OF PARADISE.
2. Prophet Enoch the seventh from Adam wrote in his revelations thus: “Then, I know another mystery, that books will be given to the righteous and the wise to become cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom.
3. AND TO THEM SHALL THE BOOKS BE GIVEN, and they shall believe in them and rejoice over them and then shall the righteous who have learnt there from all the paths of uprightness be recompensed.” [From the complete book of Enoch, Revelation of Enoch Chapter 6 verses 13 to 14.]
4. Books shall be given to the righteous. And what they will learn from the Books that will be given to them will help them to maintain their uprightness before God and maintain their faith undefiled.
5. What if the books are given out and you refuse to collect? Or you collect and refuse to go through them so as to learn from what is written there.
6. You think God is crazy by preserving every information in writing. It has been His manner of life from the very Word “Go!” He is Allah Who is swift in writing and taking records. That is what we know God for.
7. 18And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, TABLES OF STONE, WRITTEN WITH THE FINGER OF GOD. [Exodus 31:18 KJV]
8. [2]AND THE LORD SAID TO ME, “WRITE MY ANSWER ON A BILLBOARD, LARGE AND CLEAR, so that anyone can read it at a glance and rush to tell the others. [Habakkuk 2:2 LB]
9. 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]
10. 9I WROTE UNTO YOU IN AN EPISTLE NOT TO COMPANY WITH FORNICATORS: 10yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
11. 11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one, no, not to eat. [1 Corinthians 5:9 – 11 KJV]
12. 12I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake. 13I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. [1 John 2:12 – 13 KJV]
13. 16Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God’s will in thought, purpose, and action), 17So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work. [2 Timothy 3:16-17 AMP]
14. [16]The whole Bible was given to us by inspiration from God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives; it straightens us out and helps us do what is right. [17]It is God’s way of making us well prepared at every point, fully equipped to do good to everyone. [2 Timothy 3:16-17 LB]
15. Check all the Messiahs God sent in every dispensation. They preserved Books. They preserved records so that when the records will be opened, those who are trying to fault God will cover their faces in shame.
16. They will now see how far they have estranged themselves from God; and how many years they have left the Faith, but their mere bodies were dangling around us.
17. Many are still dangling because they are afraid that if they should write us that they have resigned, or that they have left, we might be speaking evil of them.
18. Nobody will speak evil of you. I have been enjoining all. Whenever you get tired, go home. Go and have your rest. Leave us!
19. This is because; the salvation God has promised us does not know who jumps in or who jumps out it.
20. 19[Now] we have this [hope] as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul [IT CANNOT SLIP AND IT CANNOT BREAK DOWN UNDER WHOEVER STEPS OUT UPON IT–a hope] that reaches farther and enters into [the very certainty of the Presence] within the veil, [Hebrews 6:19 AMP]
21. If you like, jump into the Ark, if you like jump out. It can never change the journey. The journey is still on. I say, the move is still on among the supernatural believers.
22. The Prophet William Branham said so. And now is it fulfilling to the letter. If you have eyes of the Spirit, you will actually notice that the move; the revival is very much on among the supernatural believers.
23. When the situation gets worse, they get tougher than the situation, for they have vowed a vow, “WE MUST GET TO THE END. WITH THE ENABLING GRACE OF GOD, WE MUST GET TO THE END, FOR WE ARE NOT THE ONE UPHOLDING OURSELVES. THE HAND OF GOD IS UPHOLDING US. AND HE WILL NEVER ALLOW US TO MAKE A SLIP OF THIS OUR COMMISSION. WE MUST GET TO THE END.”
24. Then we will give a reply to those hypocrites who were on our way to hinder, together with their families. They never believed. They are just managing. One thing or the other is sustaining them.
25. IF THERE BE ANYTHING SUSTAINING YOU RATHER THAN OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH GIVEN TO YOU BY GOD, YOU ARE STANDING ON A FALSE ANCHOR. THAT ANCHOR CANNOT HOLD YOU IN THIS PERIOD OF STORMS; NOT ONE STORM, BUT STORMS.
26. Throughout the ages God has never played with his Words because they are alive and active: whether spoken or written. He has always preserved it in book form to guide the righteous and future generations. Sure!!!
27. 27Now the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah after the King had burned the scroll with words which Baruch wrote at the dictation of Jeremiah, [and the Lord] said:
28. 28Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah Burned. [Jeremiah 36: 27 – 28 AMP]
29. Which Okechukwu Nwamkpa did, not knowing he was fulfilling Scriptures. There is no action of any man or woman that is not fulfilling what had already been written concerning that person.
30. Who burnt those books there? Jehoiakim thought it wise to burn the books; the records God kept through the prophet Baruch.
31. And God raised another Prophet, a writer; the Book of Jeremiah. Jehoakim decided to burn the records of God. Did God stop there? He never knew that what was kept in the records came out from God.
32. When you destroy the Sermon Books, have you destroyed the Source of the Message? The Source of the Message is still alive. You have energized him to reproduce it again for future generation.
33. This is because when anybody wants to commit crime or has committed crime, the first thing he will do is to destroy records so that investigators will have nothing at hand to look into.
34. Even in the government circle, when they commit crimes embezzling public funds, they will set the account division ablaze to burn all the records so that nobody will discover the extent of their fraud. Am I making sense?
35. This has been the work of the devil. Woe unto that man; woe unto that woman who will allow himself or herself to be used to burn books and records kept by the Almighty God, for the only way you can destroy any information that is documented is by setting it ablaze. Is it not true?
36. If you tear it, you have not destroyed it. Somebody can pick it in pieces and join it. But when you set it ablaze, you have destroyed it.
37. Look at Jehoiakim. He thought it wise to set ablaze, to destroy a library reserved by a Prophet of God for future generations.
38. God! The All-knowing God; the record-Keeper. He does not only keep record, but He keeps accurately. The accurate record-Keeper is the Almighty God.
39. He raced back immediately and said, “Now, I will put My Words into your mouth. All that were in the records which Jehoiakim burnt” like Okechukwu Nwamkpa who deemed it necessary because he collected bribe from late Justice Umezuluike to destabilize the Faith of Christ, for he thought he had the power to do it.
40. Where did he go first? All the records in the library, he set ablaze; where what Umezuluike wrote were filed because he was the one entrusted with the library in keeping all the files meant for the Church.
41. First thing, he went there and set all of them ablaze including his own write-ups which we preserved against him. Everything
42. But there was one he thought he destroyed, but he never knew that I had already taken all of them out and put them in a Book. He knew it not until I opened the matter.
43. Everybody was astonished that THE SON OF MAN had already taken away all the relevant information and put all of them with the help of our former Brother, Apostle Joe in Lokoja into Book forms.
44. I gave Apostle Kelechi one to keep and I kept one.
45. So, by the time he destroyed, he destroyed what cannot help us in the Faith. But all that will help us, I had already preserved.
46. Before his eyes, I came up with the GREAT SERMON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT INSPIRED EPISTLES which astonished him because I AM THE FOUNTAIN.
47. So the LORD did. The Fountain remained there. A Fountain that will never get dried up. Fountain of Truth. Those that know God know Him to be the Fountain of Truth. Is it not Scripture?
48. 13For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS, and they have hewn for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns which cannot hold water. [Jeremiah 2:13 AMP]
49. 13O Lord, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be put to shame. They who depart from You and me [Your prophet] shall [disappear like] writing upon the ground, because they have forsaken THE LORD, THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS. [Jeremiah 17:13 AMP]
50. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I WILL GIVE UNTO HIM THAT IS ATHIRST OF THE FOUNTAIN OF THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY. [Revelation 21:6 KJV]
51. The Fountain of truth opened again. All that Jehoiakim destroyed, the LORD reproduced and even more and preserved in book form for future generations.
52. Till eternity, whenever Jehoiakim’s name is mentioned, everybody will know that this is the man; this is the name of the man who took delight in setting ablaze the works of God documented and kept for posterity; for future generations.
53. In this our day, there are too many Jehoiakims. There are too many that have taken it upon themselves to set ablaze the records set by God because they are against them.
54. Whether God speaks against Me or in My favour, if I am a seed of God, I must keep the records safe.
55. The TESTAMENTS OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS contained both their good and bad experiences. Did they destroy any?
56. They shared all to their children and told them by way of commandment to make sure they keep the information safe for their future generations, till the end of the world.
57. This was so that their children that were not yet born; their great great grandchildren that were not yet born will learn never to pattern after evil, but to do that which is right in the sight of God.
58. If I did not reproduce it, I may be speaking vanity. But I have reproduced all. To God be the Glory.
59. You see the essence of keeping records. That is why Allah; the Almighty God is swift in taking records.
60. 62Then are men returned unto Allah, their protector, the (only) reality: Is not His the command, and He is the swiftest in taking account. [Surah 6:62 Yusuf Ali Translation]
61. He is keeping records for future generations to know what transpired between Him and the people in various dispensations, and of how He dealt with people in various ages so that you can compare and contrast.
62. With this, you can now stand assuredly and say, “God is dealing with us the same way He dealt with our fathers.” He is the same yesterday, today and forever, for keeping records has been His divine attribute. True or false?
What should be the attitude of a child of God when he sees himself in such a horrible situation? Kneel down and pray. Let me tell you. The devil will be in trouble anytime he causes a child of God to remember prayers. The devil will be roving and having his way over a child of God until he [the child of God] remembers who he is, and remembers the power and authority conferred on him, and goes on his knees. Amen.
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– THE SON OF MAN –
TEMPTATIONS [TRIAL OF YOUR FAITH] Exclusive to the Great Family of THE SON OF MAN [VOLUME ONE] Preached During the Night Altar of Monday 18th May 2020; Chapter 5:54 – 56
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STUDY AND PRAY ALWAYS
Excerpts from the compilation, LOOK TO THE REDEEMER AS WE WAIT AT THE GATE OF PARADISE.
2. …Joking with the preserved food is Joking with your Life. With this food we can ward off ignorance, forgetful spirits and put ourselves and families in order. Sometimes, the impact of a message is not felt until you revisit it. Note! The essence of the preserved food is to take to the words from the books and store in our hearts. Sure!!!
3. Amen! While we are reading, I deem it fit to read this PREFACE which was written by Okechukwu Nwamkpa when he was our Bishop and before the LORD sent him away from among us as an evil doer. I read the PREFACE.
4. GREAT SERMON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT INSPIRED EPISTLES 2001 Edition – PREFACE by Bishop Okechukwu Paul; Page 53 verses 1 – 8.
5. 1God, who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds” (Heb. 1:1-2, KJV).
6. 2True people of God have always acknowledged the fact that God speaks to His people in diverse manners through His appointed vessel in every generation. ONE OF THE WAYS IN WHICH GOD SPEAKS TO HIS PEOPLE IS THROUGH WRITING. YES GOD WRITES…
7. 3″And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. And the tables were the work of God, AND THE WRITING WAS THE WRITING OF GOD, GRAVEN UPON THE TABLES” (Exo. 32-15-16, KJV).
8. “And He gave unto Moses, when He had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, TWO TABLES OF TESTIMONY, TABLES OF STONE, WRITTEN WITH THE FINGER OF GOD.” (Exo. 31:18, KJV).
9. 4It was God Himself that wrote on the wall to Bel-shazzar king of Babylon when God passed judgment upon him. “In the same hour came forth finger of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace: AND THE KING SAW THE PART OF THE HAND THAT WROTE” (Daniel 5:5, KJV).
10. 5When God became a human being in the Person of Jesus Christ, He wrote on the ground to the astonishment of the Jews who brought an adulterous woman before Christ.
11. 6″So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. AND AGAIN HE STOOPED DOWN, AND WROTE ON THE GROUND. (John 8:7-8, KJV).
12. “And the Jews marveled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? (John 7:15, KJV).
13. 8God knows how to write and as well speak to people through writing. Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself passed some of His messages to various Churches through writing.
14. Excerpts from the compilation, LOOK TO THE REDEEMER AS WE WAIT AT THE GATE OF PARADISE continued.
15. Unfortunately, ignorant people among us do not know that the Holy Ghost can expire in a brother or sister.
16. “When the Holy Ghost expires in a brother or sister, he or she starts making a noise. How are you sure it has expired? He loses his prayer life; he loses his study life. He will be having strange, strange dreams; carnal; carnal dreams.
17. Sure!!! Pure truth!
18. Why? The Holy Ghost has fizzled out. Many of you in this faith have received it, but because you do not nourish it by studying the Word and through prayer, that is why your life has remained the same every year; having stunted growth. God expects us to grow in the spirit.’’ From the Message The True Token preached on 29th December, 1994 at the Household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena page 111 verse 21.
19. From the excerpts above anybody depending on audio messages alone will surely fulfil a foolish virgin.
20. There is definite purpose for which cause the publication ministry is ever busy churning out Holy books.
21. Spiritual malnourishment will lead to lack of stamina to overcome the odds and obstacles on this narrow path. That is pure truth!
22. And one of our greatest obstacles is the devil.
23. HENCE, ALWAYS HAVE THIS IN MIND OH CHILD OF GOD THAT THE POSTURE OF THE DEVIL TOWARD ADAM’S DESCENDANTS IS TO ENSURE NOBODY MAKES IT TO PARADISE.
24. CONSIDER WHAT THE HOLY BOOK SAID IN THIS REGARDS:
25. He (Iblis) said: since you have led me astray, (I swear that) I will also sit on your straight path to waylay the children of Adam till I cause them to deviate from the path of truth.
26. I will assuredly approach them from their front, from their rear, from their right and from their left and consequently you will not find most of them grateful” Surah 7 verse 16 to 17; Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri Translation.
27. In other words, he [Iblis] will encompass them about using everything.
28. He (Iblis) said:… He the devil said: …since you have led me astray,… Since you have allowed me to go astray …(I swear… I swear …that) I will also sit on your straight path to waylay the children of Adam…
29. To do what? Waylay the children of Adam. The righteous descendants of Adam. I must waylay them on the straight path; Not only the broad road, for the broad road belongs to him [Iblis].
30. But the straight Path that leads to the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to Allah. It belongs to God.
31. The present world which is under the power of the devil is created for many people, but the future world is meant for few people.
32. We know that we are children of God and that the rest of the world around us under Satan’s power and control. [1 John 5:19 LB]
33. And he answered me, saying, “The Most High has made this world for many, but the world to come, for few. [2 Book of Prophet Ezra 8:1]
34. Although there are many that will be created, but only a few shall be saved in the end. Have you not read it from the ancient manuscripts?
35. There are many created, but few will be saved.” [2 Book of Prophet Ezra 8:3]
36. We have read it from the Holy Qur’an; from Bahai religion, Hindu religion, Even the Bible, “Many are called, few are chosen.”
37. Though the people that call themselves the children of God be like sand on the sea shore, only a remnant, handpicked minority shall be saved.
38. 27And Isaiah calls out (solemnly cries aloud) over Israel: Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, only the remnant (a small part of them) will be saved [from perdition, condemnation, judgment]! [Romans 9:27 AMP]
39. And Jesus was asked a question, “Will only a few be saved in the end?” He said, “Yes! But strive that you may be in the number; that you may enter.”
40. When the Saints go marching in, My prayer O LORD is that I should be in the number. Let me not be numbered among the multitudes. Multitudes that will stumble headlong into hell.
41. This is because in the last days, the devil promised to make evil very glamorous, very attractive in the eyes and hearts of those that are doomed and destined to destruction.
42. Evil, unbelief and disobedience to God’s Word will be very light before them. They can no longer retain the Word of God in their hearts.
43. And I am saying here that the fear of God that was in our hearts in the beginning when God came down and revealed Himself to us; that fear has departed completely from the hearts of many among us, man and woman, young and old.
44. If the fear of God is still with them, where is the evidence? Everywhere is being dominated by carnal pleasures. I do not want to go there for now. Let us continue.
45. See the various ways the devil will attack you, while the Bible says, “Child of God, be on the alert, for your enemy the adversary is roaring about you, seeking to devour you.”
46. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: [1 Peter 5:8 KJV]
47. He (Iblis) said: since you have led me astray, (I swear that) I will also sit on your straight path to waylay the children of Adam till I cause them to deviate from the path of truth.
48. I will assuredly approach them from their front, from their rear, from their right and from their left AND CONSEQUENTLY YOU WILL NOT FIND MOST OF THEM GRATEFUL”
49. What? …AND CONSEQUENTLY YOU WILL NOT FIND MOST OF THEM GRATEFUL.” They will now turn out to be ingrates. Their lives will be the life of ingratitude. Has the devil not succeeded?
50. 16He said: “Because thou hast thrown me out of the way, lo! I will lie in wait for them on thy straight way: 17″Then will I assault them from before them and behind them, from their right and their left: Nor wilt thou find, in most of them, gratitude (for thy mercies).” [Surah 7:16 – 17 Yusuf Ali Translation]
51. 16(Iblîs) said: “Because You have sent me astray, surely I will sit in wait against them (human beings) on Your Straight Path. 17Then I will come to them from before them and behind them, from their right and from their left, and You will not find most of them as thankful ones (i.e. they will not be dutiful to You).” [Surah 15:39 Hilali-Khan Translation]
52. Iblis said: ‘O Lord, because you have led me stray, I will [also] best ardon and embellish for them [the sins, revolts and violations] in the earth and will certainly lead all of them astray by all means.’ [Surah 15:39 Irfan-ul-Quran]
53. 39[Iblees] said, “My Lord, because You have put me in error, I will surely make [disobedience] attractive to them on earth and I will mislead them all. [Surah15:39 Sahih International]
54. That is why the Prophet went further to say, “Only those whom the LORD God Almighty had already foreordained, chosen and elected, set apart for Himself shall escape.”
55. 40″EXCEPT YOUR CHOSEN, (GUIDED) SLAVES AMONG THEM.” [Surah 15:40 Hilali-Khan Translation]
56. 40″EXCEPT THY SERVANTS AMONG THEM, SINCERE AND PURIFIED (BY THY GRACE).” [Surah 15:40 Yusuf Ali Translation]
57. 40EXCEPT FOR THOSE EXALTED SERVANTS OF YOURS WHO HAVE ATTAINED FREEDOM [FROM DECEIT AND INTRIGUES OF THE ILL-COMMANDING SELVES].’ [Surah 15:40 Sahih International]
58. And they are in the minority. He said, “These are the people that will follow Allah’s revealed Messenger of their day.” There must be a messenger of righteousness revealed.
59. And He is no other Person but God in human form, for without God there is no Saviour. No human being can save you from the hand of the devil who has vowed a vow and has been even permitted to go and attack you from all corners day and night, giving you no breathing space.
60. That is why you see somebody in the morning behaving like a human being. In the next one hour, go to that person again. You will see a strange fellow. Another spirit has possessed that person. May God help us.
61. The only way to escape lies in running to Christ, embracing Him, swearing an oath of allegiance that you will never, for one day, slide back, for the moment you slide back he [Iblis] captures you. One way.
62. A step back in your heart, he captures you, capitalizes on that and then ravages you.
63. This is because when he comes in, it is like virus attacking your system. When a computer system is attacked by virus, or your handset is attacked by virus, to regain it is not easy. What will you do?
64. You flash [re-format] it. When you flash it, all relevant information, gone. It then means you start all over, if you survive it. IF YOU SURVIVE IT.
65. That is why if you want your handset or computer to last and to serve the purpose for which you acquired it, always make sure that your antivirus device is ever current and updated and that it is keeping pace with the level of virus that is being injected into the system on a daily basis.
66. FOR THE TRUE SEED OF GOD TO ESCAPE, THE ANTIVIRUS IS TO STUDY ALWAYS AND TO PRAY ALWAYS. MAINTAIN REGULAR PRAYERS. KEEP CLOSE CONTACT WITH GOD. LET THERE BE NOTHING STANDING BETWEEN YOU AND GOD.
67. CREATE NO ROOM FOR THE DEVIL TO BEGIN TO INSINUATE FALSEHOOD INTO YOUR HEART, THAT WILL MAKE YOU TO BEGIN TO DOUBT THE TRUTH AND DISBELIEVE THE TRUTH.
68. William Branham said, “The devil is constantly at work among human beings. And there is only but one thing he is going to do to them. He will make them not to recognize the truth. And to those that have recognized the truth, he will make them to deny the truth.”
69. And the moment the devil has caused you to do this, you are doomed to destruction. By denying the truth, you have denied your Saviour. Is it not true?
70. By not recognizing the truth, you have not recognized your Messiah. You are doomed.
71. 9And the huge dragon was cast down and out -that age-old serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, he who is a seducer (deceiver) of humanity the world over, he was forced out and down to the earth, and his angels were flung out along with him. … 12Therefore, be glad (exult), O heavens and you that dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for devil has come down to you in fierce anger (fury), because he knows has [only] a short time [left]! Revelation 12 verse 9 and 12.
72. Is there any contradiction? Is it not the same thing? So if you do not believe any of them, go ahead.
Many are here without having any commitment, while some are here because they have committed a lot. The level of investment you have made in your business will determine how jealously you will guard the business against failure. This is because you have committed something great, even your life. The two C’s: CONVICTION and COMMITMENT. What have you committed in this Ministry, for which cause you will never live to see the Ministry crumble or be blamed in your hand? Seeing we have received this Grace, we make sure it is not blamed in our hands.
– THE SON OF MAN –
LEARN TO POSSESS YOUR VESSELS IN HONOUR VOLUME 1 Preached on Sunday, 4th June, 2018; Pg. 57:6 – 7
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ARE YOU CONVINCED, SURE AND CERTAIN?
Excerpts from the compilation, LOOK TO THE REDEEMER AS WE WAIT AT THE GATE OF PARADISE.
2. IN THE LIGHT OF THESE TRUTHS, HOW WILL YOU ESCAPE THE MULTIFACETED DRAGNETS OF THE DEVIL WITHOUT THE HELP AND KNOWLEDE OF GOD?
3. IF YOU DON’T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOD AND THE DEVIL, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD, TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD, TRUE ANOINTING AND FALSE ANOINTING YOU ARE BOUND TO BE DECEIVED. Sure!
4. The person will not know when the devil is in operation in his life. Just like I gave you the Message that the devil is in operation in the lives of many people among us and they knoweth it not, for they are being deceived by the phrase “BRETHREN”, “BRETHREN”; “MY BRETHREN.”
5. 1 Timothy 4 verse 1 to 2, Living Bible. 1But the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times SOME IN THE CHURCH will turn away from Christ and become eager followers of teachers with devil-inspired ideas.
6. Some in the Church! Some, who call themselves “Brethren” among us will depart completely. Departure takes place in the heart and manifests in attitude. True or false?
7. By their fruits, ye shall know them. You begin to see evil-speaking. You begin to see lies. You begin to see and witness all manner of hypocrisies.
8. Yet, calling upon the Name of the LORD in unholiness, thinking they are getting saved when they are in Satan’s Eden, for the devil has blindfolded them to the point that they will not recognize their falling away.
9. They will begin to justify that which they condemned. They will begin to take sides in error and with error.
10. 1But the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times SOME IN THE CHURCH will turn away from Christ and become eager followers of teachers with devil-inspired ideas.
11. Devil-inspired ideas. Ideas of getting rich quick. Idea of getting a work quick. Idea of getting a wife. Idea of getting a husband. Idea of getting one thing or the other. All inspired by the devil.
12. And the person who is being inspired will not notice that it is the devil that is at work in him. He will be attributing all of them to the grace of God. It is the grace of God that bringeth salvation.
13. Grace of God that bringeth salvation can never lead you to disobedience to the truth that is clearly revealed to you by the Almighty God, vindicated and confirmed by God Himself. I do not want to talk more.
14. Last week, the first son of our late Brother, James Ugwueze called Me. And I was wondering that he was still holding My phone number.
15. And he told Me clearly that from the time his father died that he had not identified with any other religious group, for his father warned all of them including their late mother.
16. Their father told them that in case he should die of sickness, they should never; and that nobody from his loins should depart from the Faith of Christ revealed by Apostle Peter Odoemena, THE SON OF MAN.
17. He told Me that in spite of the persecutions they passed through in the hands of their father’s relation, that he held on and maintained his ground till this night; that he can swear with his blood.
18. He said that he wants Me to help him so that he can identify with Brethren anywhere. I referred him to pastor Oliver of Enugu-Ezike, who happens to be his townsman.
19. Pastor Oliver called Me and told Me his experiences with him also and confirmed what the boy said to be true.
20. The boy went further to reveal to Me and said, “My late mother killed herself because of persecution. The people who were persecuting her were my late father’s sisters, and not brothers.
21. They insisted she must abandon our Faith and follow them catholic watchman. She resisted ab initio. Then they began to promise her too many things they will do for her; and then commanded her to destroy our Sermon Books.”
22. She said she would not destroy them. They now ordered her to send all of them back to us. She packed them with two Ghana-Must-Go bags and returned them to us at Enugu-Ezike, came home and joined them.
23. His son told Me, “I told my mother, “You are dead by doing this. Look at what our late father said. Simply because they have scattered your daughters and shared them among themselves will not make us to deny that Faith. When you follow these people, you will die. They want to kill you.””
24. He said, “My mother ignored me and followed them. Two weeks, she developed sickness and died.”
25. Then the catholic watchman pastor was invited. They said that they will not come to bury her, and that they knew her not. She was just a visitor.
26. At the end, the heathens buried her. Heathens buried her, that the word of the son which he spoke and which was the voice of their late father might come to pass.
27. Brother Oliver, the Pastor confirmed it to be true and told me that he was there, live and witnessed that burial. He confirmed that only the heathens rallied round her corpse and that nobody was even invited to come and say, “Praise God.”
28. They buried her according to their customs and traditions; and then shared her children among themselves.
29. Yesterday, I received another call from Jigawa. Lo and behold, it was late bro James’ first daughter.
30. I wondered again. I do not know her. How manage that you could call Me. She said, “Daddy, please. I got Your number from my senior brother. Look at what he told me and I decided I would call You.”
31. I said, “Thank you very much for calling. I hope you are well.” She said, “I am managing with them.” I said, “Ok. Thank you! Keep fit.”
32. They have no father; they have no mother, but the first son as small as he was has resisted everything. He is now on his own. He has completed his period of apprenticeship at Aba. They now employed him there to be a part of the company.
33. They are manufacturing shoes of all sorts and they are exporting them to Africa and beyond Africa.
34. He said that he is now an independent man.
35. IF YOU ARE CONVINCED, SURE AND CERTAIN OF YOUR BELIEF, THERE IS NO AMOUNT OF THREAT THAT CAN HINDER YOU. EVEN THE DEATH OF YOUR PARENTS CAN NEVER HINDER YOU FROM STANDING UPON YOUR CONVICTION OF WHAT IS TRUE.
36. But there are some who use the demise of their fathers, their husbands, their bread-winner so called; once they are no more, they can go to blazes. Then their belief will stop immediately.
37. In other words, what brought them in had left. What are they being in the Faith for? Then they will begin to find fault with all the members of the Faith, for not taking care of them, for not doing this and for not doing that.
38. They will be looking for faults, instead of going away, knowing that their expectations have already failed. They will inject the poison into their children in their homes.
39. So, I do not know who you are, but this great shaking that is on now, shaking in different forms by cutting off all the occasions for boasting, will reveal who you are; and will reveal who I am.
40. 1But the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some in the church will turn away from Christ and become eager followers of teachers with devil-inspired ideas.
41. 2These teachers will tell lies with straight faces and do it so often that their consciences won’t bother them. 1 Timothy 4 verse 1 to 2 LB.
42. Thus, without the Last appearance of the Light (CHRIST) the teaching Priest, we were all caught in Satan’s web of religious deceit. Sure!!!
43. I tell you; He will defend and protect and avenge them speedily. However, when THE SON OF MAN comes, will He find [persistence in faith] on the earth? Luke 18 verse 8 AMP.
44. Still He found nothing.
45. The answer is NO. He met all the tables filled with vomit.
46. 7But even these reels from wine and stagger from strong drink: the priest and the prophet reel from strong drink; they are confused from wine, they stagger and are gone astray through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble when pronouncing judgement. 8For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no place that is clean. Isaiah 28 verse 7 to 8 AMP.
47. That is pure truth!
48. For because He Himself [in His humanity] has suffered in being tempted (tested and tried), He is able [immediately] to run to the cry of (assist relieve) those who are being tempted and tested tried [and who therefore are being exposed to suffering] Sure!!! Hebrew 2 verse 18 AMP
49. He shall be a staff to the righteous… An Anchor to the righteous. A staff. An Anchor. A support. When somebody starts getting weak, he supports himself with a staff so that he does not fall. And then, the staff becomes a support.
50. He shall be a staff to the righteous whereon to stay themselves and not fall and he shall be the lights to the Gentiles, and the hope of those troubled of heart.’’ The Book of Enoch, the second parable chapter 2 verse 24.
51. By this exhortation, I wish to stir up pure minds in us knowing very well that the journey is not yet over until we are clothed with immortality. I urge us to look up to our redeemer as we wait at the gate of paradise. Remain Blessed in Him Eternally. Message from Apostle Ugonna. Lagos household.
52. Amen! To God be the Glory. Is this Message not thrilling? Is it not heart-warming? This is what we need for this hour.
53. As we see the day approaching, what do we do? We put ourselves in remembrance of these great truths we have received from God which many have forgotten;
54. While some have deliberately set them aside, not knowing that they are fulfilling dangerous Scripture that said, “In the last days, God will reveal His wrath upon those who push the truth away from themselves.”
55. We read it here in our Family Altar. Romans chapter 1, from verse 17 through 18. How God is against people that, not only disbelieve, but cause others not to believe.
56. 17For in the Gospel a righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith [disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith]. As it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith. 18For God’s [holy] wrath and indignation are revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who in their wickedness repress and hinder the truth and make it inoperative. AMPLIFIED
57. [17]This Good News tells us that God makes us ready for heaven—makes us right in God’s sight—when we put our faith and trust in Christ to save us. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scripture says it, “The man who finds life will find it through trusting God.” [18]BUT GOD SHOWS HIS ANGER FROM HEAVEN AGAINST ALL SINFUL, EVIL MEN WHO PUSH AWAY THE TRUTH FROM THEM. Living Bible
58. They push the truth away from themselves. They assign the truth to people around them, but they themselves will harden their hearts against the truth.
59. Do we have such people? You dare not talk to them, revealing the truth. It is not for them. They are now above the truth. With some of them, truth will even provoke them to anger, to hostility and to all manner of evil-speaking.
60. We are living in a dangerous hour where you will tell somebody the truth, revealing his evil ways from the Scriptures, and he will distance you. He will run away from you.
61. No matter where you run to, truth must meet you there. You can escape from everything, but there are two things you cannot escape from.
62. [1] You cannot escape from LIGHT. [2] You cannot escape from AIR.
63. You can hide yourself in the house so that rain will not touch you. You can use a big umbrella so that rain will not drench your body. You can live under the cave so that no water will touch you.
64. You will refuse not to drink water, but you will die, for the only animal that refuses water and stays alive is the lizard. Apart from the lizard, there is no other animal that refuses water and stays alive.
65. And that is why the body of the lizard is always dry. That is also why the excreta of the lizard is always very strong; strong like stone.
66. I know many of you are ignorant of what I am saying. I SAY IT BECAUSE I AM THE CREATOR OF ALL. Amen!
67. Who has ever seen lizard drinking water? Have you ever seen it? You see lizard nearing water to drink? It is impossible. I say, it is impossible.
68. There can be life everywhere, but not on the toes or feet of a bird. That is why a bird can perch on a naked electric wire and it will never electrocute the bird, for it is insulated.
69. From the bird, scientists invented insulators that will make somebody to stand upon a naked wire without being electrocuted.
70. I know these things marvel you. Do not marvel. I am here with you. I know My wife has never studied this one to know whether they are true or false.
71. From now, begin to watch birds that perch on naked high tension cables. Begin now to see lizard moving about without drinking water for one day, but runs about. Amen!
72. You can pursue everything, but you cannot pursue the air. Neither can you pursue the sunshine. Can you pursue the light? No! If you are asked to pursue the light where will you start?
Whatever you are doing today will determine what tomorrow will be for you. What you are doing today will determine what your future holds. A child that is left to have his or her way; a child that is left on his or her own MUST surely bring disgrace to his or her parents. So little children, take note. If you are stubborn, disobedient and arrogant, it is not a good character. If your character is bad now, and your parents are talking to you, God is talking to you that what you are doing is bad and you do not want to change. Remember that you add to your age every day. Every passing year, you add to your age. The more the years pass by, the more you are hardening until “hardening insensitivity” will becloud you fully.
CATCH THEM YOUNG; [UNDATED];
Pg. 21 vs. 1 – 3
– THE SON OF MAN –
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THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN
To those who have formed the habit of criticizing or finding fault with truth that is evidently set out before all of us; truth that can change our lives; truth that contains the remedy to our unbelief; truth that sanctifies us and makes us acceptable by God, no matter how you criticize it, it is a wasted criticism. Wasted criticism!
2. It is like a gunshot you are firing on the moon. You are wasting the gunshots. You fire a gunshot on the sun, you are wasting it. Truth has come to stay.
3. TRUTH HAS NO SUBSTITUTE. BUT IT IS CLEAR TO ALL THAT THE TRUTH HUMAN BEINGS RESIST BY PUSHING IT AWAY FROM THEM HAS BEEN PROVED TO BE THE TRUTH THAT CONTAINS THE SOLUTIONS TO THEIR PERSONAL PROBLEMS; FAMILY PROBLEMS.
4. The moment parents refuse and push away the truth, their children will borrow a cue from them. True or false?
5. IT IS DIFFICULT FOR ONE TO TAKE THE TRUTH SERIOUSLY, WHOSE PARENTS ARE NONCHALANT AND INSENSITIVE TO THE TRUTH. IT TAKES HYPOCRITES TO PRODUCE HYPOCRITES, FOR WHATEVER A SNAKE PRODUCES MUST BE LONG.
6. It may differ in colour, but it must be long. One common nature of all snakes is that they must be long. Number 2, they must crawl on the ground, but their colour differ, one to another according to habitat. The colour is according to habitat. The environment a snake is brought up determines the colour of the snake. Amen.
7. The same way, the colour of any fish is determined by the colour of the water where the fish is bred. If the fish comes from mud water, the colour must be mud. If the water is black, the colour of the fish must be black. If the water is bright, the colour of the fish must be bright. Did you get the Message?
8. THE FAMILY WHERE YOU ARE RAISED SPEAKS VOLUMES CONCERNING YOUR LIFE. YOU CAN ONLY CHANGE IT ANY DAY YOU DEVELOP YOURSELF TO RECOGNIZE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
9. AND THEN, YOU BEGIN TO EVOLVE A PATTERN OF LIFE AWAY FROM THAT OF YOUR PARENTS, WHICH WILL HELP YOU TO SUCCEED WHERE YOUR PARENTS FAILED. TRUE OR FALSE?
10. That is how oftentimes, we harvest good fruit from a bad tree. It is by grafting. I hope you know what grafting is. You can graft tangerine to orange. You can graft orange to grape or lemon for they are all citrus species.
11. But there is no way you can graft paw-paw to orange, or guava to orange. It can never work. Amen.
12. The Message we have received should be an eye opener. That is our Sunday School.
13. Now, before we go, I have a brief sermon from one of our Pastors which I would like us to listen to. It is a sermon.
14. I do not know the content, but I have My trust in him that he knows the truth, and he lives by the truth.
15. I have that confidence that if he errs tomorrow, it is because he has decided to err and not that he does not know both the present and future implications.
16. If any of them is erring today or anytime in the future, it is not because the person does not know the truth about the matter.
17. It is because the person has made up his mind to bear the consequences. And that will bring about premature death. Premature death!
18. It is like one that knows that God saves, but then deliberately decides to run across the highway when there is a fast-moving on-coming vehicle.
19. Will God save you when you have deliberately decided to commit suicide by running across the highway while seeing an on-coming fast-moving vehicle?
20. SO, THAT IS WHAT IT TAKES FOR ONE TO KNOW THE TRUTH, PREACH THE TRUTH AND LIVE BY THE TRUTH.
21. BUT ANY DAY, THE PERSON DECIDES ON HIS OWN TO LIVE OR ACT CONTRARY, TALK CONTRARY, DRESS CONTRARY, THAT PERSON HAS ALREADY DECIDED TO COMMIT SUICIDE WHICH CAN NEVER BE TRACED TO THE FATHER OR THE MOTHER, BUT TO THAT PERSON.
22. SO, TAKE NOTE OF WHAT I AM SAYING. IT IS NOT IN EVERY CASE THAT YOUR PARENTS WILL BE BLAMED.
23. WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN ESPOUSED TO THE TRUTH AND YOU ARE CONVINCED THAT IT IS THE TRUTH, EVERY FALSE LIFE OR WRONG LIFE YOU LIVE FROM THEN HENCEFORTH WILL NO LONGER BE ATTRIBUTED TO YOUR PARENTS’ INABILITY TO BRING YOU UP IN THE FEAR OF GOD. THE WHOLE BLAME GOES STRAIGHT TO YOU.
24. WE WILL ONLY BLAME YOUR PARENTS IF, WHEN THEY KNOW YOU ARE EVIL OR HEAR YOU ARE EVIL AND THEY GET OFFENDED AT PEOPLE WHO ARE BRINGING SUCH REPORTS TO THEM.
25. If you hate your child, when evil reports are coming concerning your child, instead of begging the people that brought the report to help you and see whether he can be restored, you develop an ungodly attitude towards them by warning them to steer clear from your child, and that child is a good fellow who does not give you headache; who does not disturb your peace; in other words, “What is your business checking my son or checking my daughter? What is your business? If he goes astray, does it concern you? Is he begging food from you? Has he asked for help from you for one day? Am I complaining? If I want to complain will I come to you? As for me, my son, my daughter, my child is not my headache. They have learnt to fend for themselves. So, let no man ever poke his nose into the affairs of my family life.”
26. That goes to show that the LORD will never ever in this life nor in the life to come exonerate you from the evils of your family. You will be another family of Eli.
27. If you are a widow, God will show you widows that raised children in the fear of God. If you are a widower, a man without a wife, who lost his wife to death, the LORD will show you many.
28. If you are an orphan, you lost your parents; the LORD will show you many orphans, who through the fear of God and obedience to the truth revealed to them became useful in life.
29. If you came from a bad family, the LORD will raise one or two who even had worse records than you, especially the history of Jabez who was born under a curse. And he did not take it light when He noticed it. He begged God to change his condition and the LORD changed it.
30. 9Jabez was honorable above his brothers; but his mother named him Jabez [sorrow maker], saying, Because I bore him in pain. 10Jabez cried to the God of Israel, saying, Oh, that You would bless me and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and You would keep me from evil so it might not hurt me! And God granted his request. [1 Chronicles 4:9 – 10 AMP]
31. ANY DAY YOUR STUBBORN CHILD NOTICES THAT YOU ARE ALWAYS SUPPORTIVE TO HIS CHARACTER, HE WILL NEVER TAKE CORRECTION FROM ANYBODY AGAIN. TAKE NOTE OF WHAT I AM SAYING.
32. Any man or woman who is playing a supportive role to the evil behaviour of his or her children has succeeded in hardening their hearts against correction from anybody.
33. In other words, they must be unworthy human beings here on earth. You have indirectly rendered all of them worthless before God and before humanity.
34. This is the era where every young man and every young lady is desiring unnecessary independence; unnecessary freedom. Do not poke your nose into my activities. I am of age.
35. And this is someone who is still dependent on his or her parents for everything.
36. And God said, “No matter your age, man or woman, young or old, as long as you are still being taken care of by your parents; they are paying your school fees; your apprenticeship; they are harbouring you; paying your fees paying house rent and everything, feeding you, you are under their power and control. It is an abomination for you to disregard or set aside their instructions or tell them to their faces that you are no longer a child; you are no longer a kid; you have arrived; you have your senses and that you are not mad.”
37. ANYBODY WHO DOES NOT HAVE A GODLY COUNSELOR MUST HAVE AN UNGODLY COUNSELOR.
38. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE GOD AS YOU COUNSELOR, YOUR ADVISER AND YOU GUIDE, DEFINITELY, THE DEVIL WILL OCCUPY THAT POSITION.
39. YOU MUST REJECT GOD’S PROVISION FOR YOU TO GIVE THAT POSITION TO THE DEVIL.
40. EVERY TRUE SEED OF GOD HAS THE NUMBER ONE POSITION FOR GOD IN HIS LIFE. WHEN GOD SPEAKS ON ANY MATTER, HE CLOSES HIS MOUTH, FOR HE KNOWS IT IS FINAL.
41. If, when God speaks, you still have something to say, you are a hypocrite claiming to be with God. Something has gone wrong with you. The devil is in operation in you and you know it not.
42. God spoke to Cain, but instead of Cain to bow down his head in shame and in regret that he misbehaved himself for he acted contrary, Cain became furious. Angry and hostile to God, for he could no longer behold the majesty of the LORD.
43. When somebody is out of the way of truth; when somebody has allowed the devil to be in operation in his life, he will never know the difference between God talking to him and a fellow human being talking to Him, for he can no longer behold the Majesty of the LORD.
44. God will be talking and he will be talking. There will be contention. There will be talking competition. One striving to win the other. It will continue until God will say, “Ok, I will defer it until further notice.” Then you say, amen.
45. You do not know that you have prepared your gallows; your grave. You do not know that God has taken exactly what he wants to take from you.
46. Nobody goes to school to learn stubbornness. Nobody goes to school to learn disobedience. Nobody goes to school to learn pride. These are the things we develop by what we see and by what we hear; by contact and by evil communication that spoils good character.
47. How do I know one that is faithful to God; loyal obedient and humble? It begins with the parents. I say, it begins with the parents. Your attitude towards your parents automatically reveals your attitude towards God. Do you believe it to be true?
48. If you are hypocritical to your parents, you must be hypocritical to God. If you have the fear of your parents in your heart, and vow never to do anything without receiving approval from your parents, the same thing will apply between you and God.
49. Bur when you have decided to have your way, “Parents, do not talk to me”, this and that no matter what services you say you are rendering to God, they are useless services.
50. If you are a preacher, a Pastor, An Apostle, or Evangelist, Prophet and whatever; even if you like, be the son of man, God will use your Message that is true to save people and use your Message that is true to condemn you for not living a life in agreement with your Message.
51. In other words, your life is not worthy of your Gospel. You have succeeded in helping people into Paradise, while you yourself have become a castaway.
52. Who will like to be like that? My Message is approved, but my character rejected. Who will like to be like that?
53. You see why God said, “let he that thinketh he standeth be very careful, lest he falls without noticing it.” You can fall without noticing it.
54. It was when David entered the Temple of worship and listened to the Word of God that was coming from the high priest that David noticed at a glance how far he has strayed away from God.
55. But while he was examining himself without hearing the mind of God, he justified himself even in iniquity.
56. If Nathan the prophet never came to David, he would not have realized that he had attracted God’s judgment upon himself of taking the wife of Uriah and, at the same time, killed the man.
57. To him as a king, it meant nothing. It was not until God sent Prophet Nathan and then David passed judgment against whosoever that will do such a thing in the land of Israel while he was ruling as king.
58. Nathan turned to him and said, “O king! You are the one. Look at what you did. And the LORD is saying, “Why did you not spare the man, the Hittite? If you needed more wives, you would have asked of me. I would have given you all the women married by Saul, your master. Take all of them. Why did you not take that woman and spare the life of that man? You took the woman. You also killed the husband so that you have closed that generation. Why should you?””
59. David fainted. If the LORD never spoke to him, he would not have seen his fault.
60. Oftentimes, we behave right, in our own eyes, but wait until the LORD will judge all our actions and all our utterances. Then, you begin to see that the devil has been in operation in you, and you knoweth it not.
61. In Romans chapter 7, Saint Paul saw himself in such a situation and he cried out, “So, sin has been controlling me; so sin had power over me and I know it not. When I wanted to do good, I see myself doing evil. I wanted to do evil, I will be doing good.
62. I queried myself, “What is responsible for my erratic behaviour and my inability to remain steadfast in my conviction of what is right and live the life thereof?”
63. I came to the realization that I was not the one but the devil was the one doing it in me. The devil is in operation in me, not wanting me to get saved. He wanted me to preach and save others, and be a castaway in the end.”
64. And I cried out, “Who will bring me out to of this hopeless condition I am in? Who will save me from this death?” And I hear a voice behind me saying, “Christ!”
65. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. … 22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 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? [Romans 7:15, 22 – 24 NIV]
66. In the last days, it will be very difficult for people to live godly lives. But the remedy lies in Christ who has come to earth as a human being to lay a perfect example of life God wants us to pattern after, for it is only God that will be our ticket to Paradise.
67. 1BUT UNDERSTAND this, that in the last days will come (set in) perilous times of great stress and trouble [hard to deal with and hard to bear]. [2 Timothy 3:1 AMP]
68. It is quite true that the way to live a godly life is not an easy matter. But the answer lies in Christ who came to earth as a man, was proved spotless and pure in His spirit, was served by angels, was preached among the nations, was accepted by men everywhere, and was received up again to His glory in heaven. [1 Timothy 3:16 LB]
69. OUTSIDE GOD’S NATURE, WE ARE WASTING OUR TIME. FOR THAT REASON, WE ARE ENJOINED, “ALWAYS MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE PERSONALLY AND PRACTICALLY UNDERSTUDYING HIM.”
70. Does it mean coming to live with Him in His house? No! But it is by obeying His Messages which are nothing but His life. As He lives; as He believes, so He speaks. So he documents. And by so doing people in distant lands will also pattern after Him and get saved.
71. That is why Saint Paul said, “I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ” for it is the power of God unto salvation to those who will believe, both the Jews and the Gentiles.
72. 16For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. [Romans 1:16 KJV]
73. But when you do not believe and you refuse to practice it, there is no way the Gospel of THE SON OF MAN can save you in the end. And now, we are at the end.